Robin Chapman Stacey (66 results)

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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN:0783554559.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Collectible First American Edition Fine Hardcover with Near Fine Dust Jacket Color and B/W Illustrations. Study of Ancient and Medieval Ireland is far more comprehensive than the beautiful color filled Coffee table book one might think this is.The author Robin Chapman Stacey specialty is early Celtic law and it's significance in Irish Mythology and the Brehon laws as well as the seats of power at Tara. Some of the most extraordinary Color Photos, Maps and pictures I've ever seen.of Ogam Stones, Standing Stones,Illuminated Manuscripts Celtic Crosses artfully laid out.NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese In Flight Celtic books Scans of Cover, Table of Contents and a Sample Pages. Color and Black and White Illustrations. (illustrator).…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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 centuries. Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the manner in which publicly enacted words and silences were used to construct legal and political relationships in a society where traditional hierarchies were very much in flux. Law in early Ireland was a verbal art, grounded as much in aesthetics as in the enforcement of communal norms. In contrast with modern law, no sharp distinction existed between art and politics. Visualizing legal events through the lens of procedure, Stacey helps readers recognize the creative, fluid, and inherently risky nature of these same events. While many historians have long realized the mnemonic value of legal drama to the small, principally nonliterate societies of the early Middle Ages, Stacey argues that the appeal to social memory is but one aspect of the role played by performance in early law. In fact, legal performance (like other more easily recognized forms of verbal art) created and transformed as much as it recorded.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Used copy in good condition, shows minor signs of wear. Spine in good condition. Slight wear to page edges and corners.Some foxing spots along edges. Book contents clean.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:081223216X. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:081223216X. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. This scholarly study examines how legal disputes were resolved in medieval Ireland and Wales, focusing on the shift from customary practices to more formal court-based systems. It explores the role of personal sureties, individuals who guaranteed anothers conduct or obligations and how these arrangements structured early legal and social order. Drawing on surviving medieval legal texts, the book analyses how communities balanced tradition, kinship ties, and emerging judicial authority. It highlights the gradual development of more centralised legal processes and the ways in which local customs were adapted or replaced over time.…

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Original Cloth Black. Condition: As New. Near Fine. First Edition (?); First Impression. Light shelfwear on dust jacket. Light creasing to dust jacket.; 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm; 368 pages.

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Hardback. Condition: New. In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She identifies narrative devices and tropes running throughout successive revisions of legal texts that frame the body as an analogy for unity and for the court, that equate maleness with authority and just rule and femaleness with its opposite, and that employ descriptions of internal and external landscapes as metaphors for safety and peril, respectively. Historians disagree about the context in which the lawbooks of medieval Wales should be read and interpreted. Some accept the claim that they originated in a council called by the tenth-century king Hywel Dda, while others see them less as a repository of ancient custom than as the Welsh response to the general resurgence in law taking place in western Europe. Stacey builds on the latter approach to argue that whatever their origins, the lawbooks functioned in the thirteenth century as a critical venue for political commentary and debate on a wide range of subjects, including the threat posed to native independence and identity by the encroaching English; concerns about violence and disunity among the native Welsh; abusive behavior on the part of native officials; unwelcome changes in native practice concerning marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and fears about the increasing political and economic role of women.…

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