The Mirror of Justice

This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides , the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga , the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox , the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice , the eighteenth-century codification con