Law and history in Cervantes' Don Quixote /

Byrne, Susan,

Law and history in Cervantes' Don Quixote / Susan Byrne. - 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) - Toronto Iberic ; 3 . - Toronto Iberic ; 3. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Cervantes' Quixotic mos Hispanicus -- History, jurisprudence, and the creation of the novel -- Giovio, Baeza, history, and law in Cervantes' works -- Jurisprudence in Spain, seventh to sixteenth centuries -- Laws broken, glossed, and made: Don Quixote -- Laws broken, glossed, and made: Sancho Panza et al. -- History and historiography in the Quixote -- Cervantes' mos Hispanicus: considerations and conclusions.

"Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era - those of law and history - into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel. Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes' sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes."--

Scholarly & Professional University of Toronto Press.

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 --Knowledge--Law.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 --Friends and associates.
Baeza, Gaspar de, 1540-
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Don Quixote.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 --Et le droit.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 --Amis et relations.
Baeza, Gaspar de, né 1540.
Jove, Paul, 1483-1552.
Baeza, Gaspar de, 1540-
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.


Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de)


1500-1699


Law and literature--History--16th century.
Law and literature--History--Spain--17th century.
Law in literature.
History in literature.
Droit dans la littérature.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--16e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Espagne--17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Renaissance.
Law and literature.
Friendship.
History in literature.
Law.
Law in literature.


Spain.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Literary criticism.
History.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

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