Law Lawyers And Litigants In Early Modern England
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Law Lawyers And Litigants In Early Modern England
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Author : Joanne Begiato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Law Lawyers And Litigants In Early Modern England written by Joanne Begiato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Law categories.
Written in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, this collection of essays by prominent historians examines and builds on the scholarly legacy of the leading historian of early modern English law, society and politics. Brooks's work put legal culture and legal consciousness at the centre of our understanding of seventeenth and eighteenth century English society, and the English common law tradition. The essays presented here develop a number of strands found in his work, and take them in new directions. They shed new light on central debates in the history of the common law, exploring how law was understood and used by different communities in early modern England, and examining how and why people engaged (or did not engage) in litigation. The volume also contains two hitherto unpublished essays by Christopher Brooks, which consider the relationship between law and religion and between law and political revolution in seventeenth century England.
Law Politics And Society In Early Modern England
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Author : Christopher W. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-08
Law Politics And Society In Early Modern England written by Christopher W. Brooks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-08 with History categories.
Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.
Lawyers Litigation English Society Since 1450
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Author : Christopher Brooks
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Lawyers Litigation English Society Since 1450 written by Christopher Brooks and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Law categories.
Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays roughly half of which are previously unpublished, approaches the law from two different angles: the uses made of courts and the fluctuations in the fortunes of the legal profession. Based on extensive original research, his work has helped to redefine the parameters of British legal history, away from procedural development and the refinement of legal doctrine and towards the real impact that the law had in society. He also places the law into a wider social and political context, showing how changes in the law often reflected, but at the same time influenced, changes in intellectual assumptions and political thought. Lawyers as a profession flourished in the second half of the sixteenth century and throughout the seventeenth century. This great age of lawyers was followed by a decline in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, reflecting both a decline in litigation and the perception of the law as slow, artificially complicated and ruinously expensive. In Lawyers, Litigation and Society, 1450-1900, Christopher Brooks also looks at the sorts of cases brought before different courts, showing why particular courts were used and for what reasons, as well as showing why the popularity of individual courts changed over the years.
Law Lawyers And Litigants In Early Modern England
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Author : Joanne Begiato
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Law Lawyers And Litigants In Early Modern England written by Joanne Begiato and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with History categories.
Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.
Pettyfoggers And Vipers Of The Commonwealth
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Author : C. W. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-24
Pettyfoggers And Vipers Of The Commonwealth written by C. W. Brooks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-24 with History categories.
This work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..
Lawyers In Early Modern Europe And America
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Author : Wilfrid Prest
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-30
Lawyers In Early Modern Europe And America written by Wilfrid Prest and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with History categories.
First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution. The main themes covered by each contributor are: the status, number and vocational functions of the different classes or groups or lawyers; their social origins; education and career patterns; relations between lawyers and clients, other occupations and status-groups and the state; the extent of legal ‘professionalisation’ and the role of lawyers as ‘modernisers’ in cultural, economic, political and social terms. This book will be of interest to students of history, law and political science.
Images And Cultures Of Law In Early Modern England
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Author : Paul Raffield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-29
Images And Cultures Of Law In Early Modern England written by Paul Raffield and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-29 with History categories.
An interesting interpretation of the arcane world of the early modern legal community.
The Madman And The Churchrobber
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Author : Jason Peacey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-06
The Madman And The Churchrobber written by Jason Peacey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-06 with History categories.
This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Employing a rich cache of archival material, Jason Peacey traces legal contestation over time and through a range of different courts, as well as in Parliament and the public domain, and contends that a microhistorical approach makes it possible to shed valuable light upon the legal and political culture of early modern England, not least by comprehending how certain disputes became protracted and increasingly bitter, and why they fascinated contemporaries. This involves recognising the dynamic of litigation, in terms of how disputes changed over time, and how those involved in myriad lawsuits found legal reasons for prolonging contestation. It also involves exploring litigants' strategies and practices, as well as competing claims about the way in which adversaries behaved, and incompatible expectations of the legal system. Finally, it involves teasing out the structural issues in play, in terms of the social, cultural, and ideological identities of successive generations. Ultimately, this dispute is employed to address important historiographical debates surrounding the nature of civil litigation in early modern England, and to provide new ways of appreciating the nature, severity, and visibility of political and religious conflict in the decades before and after the English Revolution.
Law Politics And Society In Early Modern England
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Author : C. W. Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Law Politics And Society In Early Modern England written by C. W. Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
"Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later Middle Ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law." --Book Jacket.
Law Reform In Early Modern England
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Author : Barbara J Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Law Reform In Early Modern England written by Barbara J Shapiro and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Law categories.
This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (1500–1740) and views the moves to improve law and legal institutions in the context of changing political and governmental environments. Taking a fresh look at law reform over several centuries, it explores the efforts of the king and parliament, and the body of literature supporting law reform that emerged with the growth of print media, to assess the place of the well-known attempts of the revolutionary era in the context of earlier and later movements. Law reform is seen as a long term concern and a longer time frame is essential to understand the 1640–1660 reform measures. The book considers two law reform movements: the moderate movement which had a lengthy history and whose chief supporters were the governmental and parliamentary elites, and which focused on improving existing law and legal institutions, and the radical reform movement, which was concentrated in the revolutionary decades and which sought to overthrow the common law, the legal profession and the existing system of courts. Informed by attention to the institutional difficulties in completing legislation, this highlights the need to examine particular parliaments. Although lawyers have often been seen as the chief obstacles to law reform, this book emphasises their contributions – particularly their role in legislation and in reforming the corpus of legal materials – and highlights the previously ignored reform efforts of Lord Chancellors.