The Laws of Love
Subtitle: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual (Language, Discourse, Society)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230007185
Subjects: Cultural studies; Private, property, family law; Manners And Customs; Normative Ethics; Social Science; Sociology; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Semiotics; Social Science / General; Customs & Traditions; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Courts of love; History; Law; Love
Description: From medieval literary accounts to modern day problems with the legal standing of acts of love under question throughout, this title presents a radical theory of how love and the erotic have been dealt with in law, and sanctioned in everyday experience.