The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain

by Joseph Taylor and Randy P. Schiff

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If medieval literary studies is, like so many fields, currently conditioned by an ecological turn that dislodges the human from its central place in materialist analysis, then why now focus on the law? Is not the law the most human, if not indeed the human, institution? In proposing that all life in medieval Britain, whether animal or vegetable, was subject to the same legal machine that enabled claims on land, are we not ignoring the ecocritical...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814252230

ISBN13:9780814252239

Release Date:January 2016

Publisher:Ohio State University Press

Length:302 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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