02150cam a2200397 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000180009502000150011303500130012804000230014104100080016404200080017205000220018010000410020224501470024325000190039026400620040930000450047133600210051633600280053733700250056533800230059049000230061350400510063650505540068752003480124165000260158965000390161565000380165465000360169265000240172822286053BJBSDDR20250807145854.0ta211026s2022    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2021949555  a9780192898494  a0192898493  a22286053  aDLCbengcDLCerda  aeng  apcc00aKJ147bP482l 20221 aPeters, Julie Stone,d1958-eauthor.10aLaw as performance :btheatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe /cJulie Stone Peters.  aFirst edition. 1aOxford, United Kingdom :bOxford University Press,c2022.  axiv, 350 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  astill image2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier0 aLaw and literature  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction -- Theatre, Theatrocracy, and the Politics of Pathos in the Athenian Lawcourt -- The Roman Advocate as Actor : Actio, Pronuntiatio, Prosopopoeia, and Persuasive Empathy in Cicero and Quintilian -- Courtroom Oratory, Forensic Delivery, and the Wayward Body in Medieval Rhetorical Theory -- Irreverent Performances, Heterodox Subjects, and the Unscripted Crowd from the Medieval Courtroom to the Stocks and Scaffold -- Performing Law in the Age of Theatre (c. 1500-1650) -- Legal Performance Education in Early Modern England -- Epilogue.  aExplores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions. 0aLawzEuropexHistory. 0aForensic oratoryzEuropexHistory. 0aPerformance artzEuropexHistory. 0aLawzEuropexLanguagexHistory. 0aLaw and literature.