Law and history in Cervantes' Don Quixote
By: Susan Byrne
Series: Toronto Iberic -- 3; Toronto Iberic
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781442645271
Subjects: Law in literature; Friends and associates; Law; History in literature; Knowledge
Description: "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."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Cervantes' Quixotic mos hispanicus; title: History, jurisprudence, and the creation of the novel; title: Giovio, Baeza, history, and law in Cervantes' works; title: Jurisprudence in Spain, seventh to sixteenth centuries; title: Laws broken, glossed, and made : Don Quixote; title: Laws broken, glossed, and made : Sancho Panza et al.; title: History and historiography in the Quixote; title: Cervantes' mos hispanicus : considerations and conclusions.