Law, lawyers and litigants in early modern England : essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks / edited by Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato, Adrian Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Brooks, C. W., honouree.

Lobban, Michael, editor.

Begiato, Joanne, editor.

Green, Adrian (Adrian Gareth), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Practice of law--England--History.

Practice of law.

Law--England--History.

Law.

Lawyers--England--History.

Lawyers.

Religion and law--England--History.

Religion and law.

Brooks, C. W.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Adrian Green

2. Christopher Brooks's Contribution to Early Modern History / Michael J. Braddick

3. Law, Law-Consciousness and Lawyers as Constitutive of Early Modern England: Christopher W. Brooks's Singular Journey / David Sugarman

4. `The Hard Rind of Legal History': F. W. Maitland and the Writing of Late Medieval and Early Modern British Social History / R. A. Houston

5. Fountains of Justice: James I, Charles I and Equity / R. W. Hoyle

6. The Inns of Court, Renaissance and the Language of Modernity / Phil Withington

7. The Micro-Spatial Dynamics of Litigation: The Chilvers Coton Tithe Dispute, Barrows vs. Archer (1657) / Steve Hindle

8. `Law-Mindedness': Crowds, Courts and Popular Knowledge of the Law in Early Modern England / John Walter

9. Local Laws, Local Principles: The Paradoxes of Local Legal Processes in Early Modern England / Peter Rushton

10. `So Now You Are Wed Enough': Clandestine Unions in the North-West of England in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Joanne Begiato

11. `Blunderers and Blotters of the Law?' The Rise of Conveyancing in the Eighteenth Century and Long-Term Socio-Legal Change / Craig Muldrew

12. England and America: The Role of the Justice of the Peace in County Durham, England, and Richmond County, Virginia, in the Eighteenth Century / Gwenda Morgan

13. Law and Architecture in Early Modern Durham / Adrian Green

14. Law and Revolution: The Seventeenth-Century English Example / Christopher W. Brooks

15. Religion and Law in Early Modern England / Christopher W. Brooks.

Notes:

Originally published: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781108740647

1108740642

OCLC:

1233301203

Publisher Number:

99993077897