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Medieval law in context : the growth of legal consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt / Anthony Musson.
LIBRA KD6857 .M87 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Musson, Anthony, 1966-
- Series:
- Manchester medieval studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Justice, Administration of--England--History.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Practice of law--England--History.
- Practice of law.
- Law--England--History.
- Law.
- History.
- England.
- England--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 274 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- Offering an important new perspective on medieval political, legal, and social history in England, Anthony Musson examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice, politics, and their role in society. He provides a history of judicial developments in the 13th and 14th centuries, while interweaving within each chapter a special focus on different facets of legal culture and experience. This illuminating approach reveals a comprehensive picture of two centuries worth of tremendous social change.
- Contents:
- 1 Towards a psychology of law 1
- The role of ideology 3
- The contexts of law 9
- Law in the mind 18
- 2 The professionalisation of law 36
- The intellectualising of the law 37
- Towards an identity as a profession 44
- Men of law and legal ethics 50
- Judges and lawyers in society 61
- Centre and periphery 65
- Perceptions of the legal profession 69
- 3 Pragmatic legal knowledge 84
- Family and household 85
- Communal obligations 88
- Court attendance 95
- Church attendance 101
- Experience of office-holding 103
- Book learning and literacy 120
- 4 Participation in the royal courts 135
- Availability 137
- Actionability 149
- Accountability 160
- Accessibility 163
- 5 The role of parliament 184
- The high court of parliament 186
- The legal personnel of parliament 189
- The regulation of everyday life 207
- 6 The politicisation of law 217
- Seeing and hearing the law 218
- Legitimacy through the law 232
- The world turned upside down 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0719054931
- 071905494X
- OCLC:
- 45958104
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