Title: Law and history in Cervantes' Don Quixote
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.
Subjects: Law in literature, Friends and associates, Law, History in literature, Knowledge, Cervantes saavedra, miguel de, 1547-1616, Et le droit, Amis et relations, Droit dans la littérature, Histoire dans la littérature
People: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Paolo Giovio (1483-1552), Gaspar de Baeza (1540-)