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The Politics of Ecology Land Life and Law in Medieval Britain 1st Edition by Randy P Schiff, Joseph Taylor ISBN 0814212956 9780814212950

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Year: 2016

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ISBN 10: 0814212956
ISBN 13: 9780814212950
Author: Randy P Schiff, Joseph Taylor

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 demand that we counteract human exceptionalism and reframe the past with inhuman eyes? This volume, edited by Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, presents a diverse and stimulating group of interconnected essays that respond to these questions by infusing biopolitical material and theory into ecocentric studies of medieval life. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain pursues the political power of sovereign law as it disciplines and manages various forms of natural life, and discloses the literary biopolitics played out in texts that work out the fraught interactions of life and law, in all its forms. Contributors to this volume explore such issues as legal networks and death, Arthurian bare life, Chaucerian medical biopolitics, the biopolitics of fur, ecologies of sainthood, arboreal political theology, conservation and political ecology, and geographical melancholy. Bringing together both established and rising critical voices, The Politics of Ecology creates a place for cutting-edge medievalist ecocriticism focused on the intersections of land, life, and law in medieval English, French, and Latin literature.

The Politics of Ecology Land Life and Law in Medieval Britain 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Biopolitics and Forest Law

Biopolitics in the Forest – Karl Steel
Sovereign Meat: Reassembling the Hunter King from Medieval Forest Law to The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle – Jeanne Provost
The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property – Randy P. Schiff

Part II: Objects, Networks, and Land

On the Line of the Law: The London Skinners and the Biopolitics of Fur – Michelle R. Warren
Saintly Ecologies: Tracing Collectivities in the Life of King Oswald of Northumbria – Mary Kate Hurley
Undeadness and the Tree of Life: The Ecological Thought of Sovereignty – Kathleen Biddick

Part III: Politics, Affect, and Life

Sovereign Ecologies: Managing the King’s Bodies in Anglo‑Norman Historiography – Joseph Taylor
Radical Conservation and the Eco‑logy of Late Medieval Political Complaint – Stephanie L. Batkie
Lost Geographies, Remembrance, and The Awntyrs off Arthure – Kathleen Coyne Kelly

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