The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises

by Theodore Ziolkowski

Book Overview

This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691114706
• ISBN13: 9780691114705
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.8"