Dark speech : the performance of law in early Ireland / Robin Chapman Stacey.
Dark speech : the performance of law in early Ireland / Robin Chapman Stacey.
Dark speech : the performance of law in early Ireland / Robin Chapman Stacey.
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
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N349.41509/ 1
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Language
English
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Physical content
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The play's the thing -- 2. Jurists on stage -- 3. The power of the word -- 4. Voicing over -- 5. Voices within the law -- Conclusion : the dangers of performance.
Publication information
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth...
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Dark speech : the performance of law in early Ireland / Robin Chapman Stacey.
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Notes
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The Middle Ages series.
Middle Ages series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-335) and index.
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Date Copyright
c2007.
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N349.41509/ 1
Record Identifier
74VKO0DveE6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO0DveE6X
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ISBN
9780812239898 (cloth : alk. paper)
081223989X (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
349.41509
MMS ID
991022626329702626
