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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442662278

Series Statement: Toronto Iberic

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Note on Texts -- , Illustrations -- , Introduction: Cervantes’ Quixotic mos hispanicus -- , 1. History, Jurisprudence, and the Creation of the Novel -- , 2. Giovio, Baeza, History, and Law in Cervantes’ Works -- , 3. Jurisprudence in Spain, Seventh to Sixteenth Centuries -- , 4. Laws Broken, Glossed, and Made: Don Quixote -- , 5. Laws Broken, Glossed, and Made: Sancho Panza et al. -- , 6. History and Historiography in the Quixote -- , 7. Cervantes’ mos hispanicus: Considerations and Conclusions -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442662278

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442662278

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Format: 1 online resource (257 p.)

ISBN: 1-4426-6595-5 , 1-4426-6227-1

Series Statement: Toronto Iberic

Content: "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."--

Note: 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. , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4426-2640-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4426-4527-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442662278