The articles of law: renaissance theories of evidence and the poetic life of facts
Haldar, Piyel (2016) The articles of law: renaissance theories of evidence and the poetic life of facts. Law and Humanities 10 (2), pp. 281-299. ISSN 1752-1483.
Abstract
The status of facts, objects and things has recently been subject to important theoretical analyses. This article picks up on such scholarship and turns to the Renaissance articulation of facts in accounting for the fabrication of social and civic life. It does so by examining the strong links forged between lawyers and those poets who might be described as apologists of poesy. What emerges is an account of facts founded on the energy of the material world and on their connectedness to other articles within the social world. Furthermore, through the process of inquiry, tribunals are themselves turned into objects that are articulated (joined) to the energy of the thing under inquiry.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | evidence, fact, early modern law, poesy/poesis |
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Law |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 31 May 2017 13:45 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2020 10:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18814 |
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