{"product_id":"villainy-in-france-1463-1610-jonathan-patterson-9780198840015","title":"Villainy in France (1463-1610): A Transcultural Study of Law and Literature","description":"Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies both fictitious and historical; literature sometimes instantiated the process of redress, and enabled the transmission of conflicts from one context to another.\u003cem\u003e Villainy in France\u003c\/em\u003e follows this overflowing current of pre-modern French culture, examining its impact within France and across the English Channel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScholars and cultural critics of the Anglophone world have long been fascinated by villainy and villains. This book reveals the subject's significant 'Frenchness' and establishes a transcultural approach to it in law and literature. In this study, villainy's particular significance emerges through its representation in authors remembered for their less-than respectable, even criminal, activities: Fran輟is Villon, Cl駑ent Marot, Fran輟is Rabelais, Pierre de L'Estoile, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, and George Chapman. \u003cem\u003eVillainy in France\u003c\/em\u003e affords legal-literary comparison of these authors alongside many of their lesser-known contemporaries; in so doing, it reinterprets French conflicts within a wider European context, from the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198840012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198840015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Jonathan Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982453965055,"sku":"9780198840015","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e50be8dd-f72a-4047-94ba-1c194302e298.jpg?v=1683261251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/villainy-in-france-1463-1610-jonathan-patterson-9780198840015","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}