Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

by Robin Chapman Stacey

What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries.

Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081223989X
• ISBN13: 9780812239898
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"