Equity in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser

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Taylor & Francis, 2006 - 217 sidor

This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to light in literary texts rather than political or legal treatises. The book address the two principal literary works in which the transformation becomes apparent, Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, and sketches the history of equity to its roots in the Greek concept of epieikeia, uncovering along the way both previously unexplained distinctions, and a long-obscured esoteric meaning. These rediscoveries, when brought to bear upon the Utopia and Faerie Queene, illuminate critical though relatively neglected textual passages that have long puzzled scholars.

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Introduction
1
Chapter One Renaissance Equity in Classical Perspective
13
Chapter Two Equity
39
Chapter Three Equity Aequitas in Thomas Mores Utopia
63
The Faerie Queene
93
Equity in Hobbes Leviathan
119
Appendix B1
123
Equity in Ciceros Verrine Oration
157
Notes
163
Bibliography
197
Index
211
Back cover
219
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