Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

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"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."--pub. desc.

subjects: Law in literature,  Friends and associates,  Law,  History in literature,  Knowledge,  Cervantes saavedra, miguel de, 1547-1616,  Et le droit,  Amis et relations,  Droit dans la littérature,  Histoire dans la littérature

People: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616),  Paolo Giovio (1483-1552),  Gaspar de Baeza (1540-)