A culturall history of law in the early modern age / edited by Peter Goodrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Goodrich, Peter, editor.

Series:

Cultural histories series ; 3.

The cultural histories series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--England--History--16th century.

Law.

Law--England--History--17th century.

Law--Social aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by the advance of science and the growing power of knowledge. A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, covering the period from 1500 to 1680, explores the war of jurisdictions and the slow and contested emergence of national legal traditions in continental Europe and in Britannia. Most particularly, the chapters examine the European quality of the Western legal traditions and seek to link the political project of Anglican common law, the mos britannicus, to its classical European language and context. Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Justice / Valerie Hayaert

2. Constitutions / Susan Byrne

3. Codes: Redressing London

-Sumptuary Laws and the Control of Clothing in the Early Modern City / Sophie Pitman

4. Agreements / Laurent de Sutter

5. Arguments: The Visual Mediation of Arguments in the Renaissance / Piyel Haldar

6. Property and Possession / Richard Braude

7. Wrongs / Lindsay Farmer

8. The Legal Profession: Tudor Lawyers in an Age of Litigation / Dominique Goy-Blanquet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-253) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1350368679

9781350368675

9781350368910

1350368911

9781474212649

1474212646

OCLC:

1241164814

Publisher Number:

99992655571