The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, 1590-1640 / Wilfred R. Prest, University of Adelaide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prest, Wilfrid R., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in English legal history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inns of Court.

Courts--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Courts.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's comprehensive study based on original sources surveys the structure and functions of the inns, outlining key aspects, from tensions between junior and senior members to the nature and effectiveness of their educational role. Its lively prose locates the inns within the cultural, political, religious, and social context of Shakespearean and pre-civil war England. This corrected and revised second edition of a classic work addresses recent scholarship on the early modern inns of court and includes a new chapter introducing the book to twenty-first-century readers.

Contents:

Dimensions

The quality of membership

Ranks of membership

Administration and government

Discipline and disorder

Learning the law

Legal and liberal education

Papists

Preachers, puritans, and the religion of lawyers

The Inns of Court and the English Revolution.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108955737 (ebook)

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