Law Reform In Early Modern England
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Law Politics and Society in Early Modern England
Author | : Christopher W. Brooks |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2009-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139475297 |
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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.
Law Reform in Early Modern England 1500 1740
Author | : Barbara J. Shapiro |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Law reform |
ISBN | : 1509934243 |
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Law Reform in Early Modern England
Author | : Barbara J Shapiro |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781509934232 |
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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.
Law Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England
Author | : Joanne Begiato,Michael Lobban,Adrian Green |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108491723 |
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Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.
Law and Authority in Early Modern England
Author | : Thomas Garden Barnes |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0874139597 |
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Deals with four themes: common law and its rivals, the growth in parliamentary authority, the assertion of royal authority, and royal authority and the governed.
Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature
Author | : Virginia Lee Strain |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018-03-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781474416306 |
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This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.
A History of Law in Europe
Author | : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 823 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107180697 |
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The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.
Law Politics and Society in Early Modern England
Author | : C. W. Brooks |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107188857 |
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"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.