The Politics Of Ecology: Land, Life, And Law In Medieval Britain (Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult)

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?

• | Author: Randy P. Schiff|Joseph Taylor
• | Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0814252230
• | ISBN-13: 9780814252239