theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe Peters, Julie Stone 1959- creator text bibliography enk 2022 First edition. monographic eng

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xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Explores 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. Introduction -- 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. Julie Stone Peters. Includes bibliographical references and index. Law Europe History Derecho Europa Historia Forensic oratory Europe History Oratoria forense Europa Performance art Europe History Performance (Arte) Europa Law Europe Language History Law and literature Derecho y literatura KJ 147 P482l 2022 9780192898494 (hardback) 0192898493 (hardback) 2021949555 DLC 211026 20261103171229.0 22286053 eng