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Subject(s)

• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Don Quixote [Browse]
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Knowledge—Law [Browse]
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547-1616—Friends and associates [Browse]
• Baeza, Gaspar de 1540- [Browse]
• Giovio, Paolo 1483-1552 [Browse]
• Law and literature—History—16th century [Browse]
• Law and literature—Spain—History—17th century [Browse]
• Law in literature [Browse]
• History in literature [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 3. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 3 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Scholarly & Professional University of Toronto Press.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 9781442662278 ((electronic book))
• 1442662271 ((electronic book))

LCCN

2012289679

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