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Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance Ian Maclean (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance By Ian Maclean (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance by Ian Maclean (The Queen's College, Oxford)


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This book investigates theories of interpretation and meaning in Renaissance jurisprudence. How do they relate to the institutions of the law, especially pedagogical institutions? In what form were they published? An answer to these questions is sought through an investigation of Renaissance problems concerning the authority of interpreters.

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Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law by Ian Maclean (The Queen's College, Oxford)

This book investigates theories of interpretation and meaning in Renaissance jurisprudence. How do they relate to the institutions of the law, especially pedagogical institutions? What characterizes the most commonly adopted theories of the legal profession? In what form were they published? How do they relate to modern canons of interpretation found in the trivium of grammar, dilaectics and rhetoric? In what ways, if any, do they mark a departure from medieval approaches? How do they relate to modern canons of interpretation? And how do they relate to similar issues in modern semantics and the philosophy of language, such as speech act theory or the 'logic of the supplement'? An answer to these questions is sought through an investigation of Renaissance problems concerning the authority of interpreters, the questions of signification, definition, verbal propriety and verbal extension, the problem of cavillation, the alternative interpretative strategies of ratio legis and mens legislatoris, the performative functions of language, and custom and equity as means of interpretation.

Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance Reviews

'Maclean provides an excellent introduction to the Humanist movement in legal studies, and its relationship with what went before and what came after. He deserves an audience in the schools of law, semantics and history; a truly Renaissance achievement.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Maclean has written a remarkably learned and penetrating study of legal interpretation ...' Brian Vickers, The Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the presentation of the text; Introduction; 1. Contexts; 2. Interpretation and the arts course; 3. Theories of interpretation and meaning; 4. Parallels and examples; Conclusion; Bibliography of primary sources; Index of citations from the Corpus Juris Civilis; Index of names; Index of terms.

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NLS9780521020275
9780521020275
0521020271
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law by Ian Maclean (The Queen's College, Oxford)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2005-09-26
256
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