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© The Author(s) 2024.This article is an exercise in what might be termed ‘ironic’ legal history. The first part explores the idea of ‘ironic’ history, which aligns the insights of literary ‘ironism’ with those of micro and ‘anecdotal’ history and ‘new’ historicism. It will focus more particularly on the work of Richard Rorty, Carlo Ginzburg and Stephen Greenblatt. The second part of the article will present a ‘case-study’ in ironic legal history; revisiting the second-century trial of the Roman orator and writer Apuleius. Apuleius wrote two notably different accounts of the same experience, one pretending to fact, the other to fiction. To read these accounts is to engage in an exercise in ironic legal history.
Author(s): ward I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Law, Culture and the Humanities
Year: 2024
Pages: epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 11/04/2024
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 29/04/2024
ISSN (print): 1743-8721
ISSN (electronic): 1743-9752
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721241229066
DOI: 10.1177/17438721241229066
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