Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brooks, C. W.
• Lobban, Michael
• Begiato, Joanne
• Green, Adrian (Adrian Gareth)

Description

x, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Written in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, this collection of essays by prominent historians examines and builds on the scholarly legacy of the leading historian of early modern English law, society and politics. Brooks's work put legal culture and legal consciousness at the centre of our understanding of seventeenth and eighteenth century English society, and the English common law tradition. The essays presented here develop a number of strands found in his work, and take them in new directions. They shed new light on central debates in the history of the common law, exploring how law was understood and used by different communities in early modern England, and examining how and why people engaged (or did not engage) in litigation. The volume also contains two hitherto unpublished essays by Christopher Brooks, which consider the relationship between law and religion and between law and political revolution in seventeenth century England.

Subject

• Brooks, C. W
• Practice of law > England > History
• Law > England > History
• Lawyers > England > History
• Religion and law > England > History
• Law
• Lawyers
• Practice of law
• Religion and law
• England

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-368) and index.

Contents

Christopher Brooks's contribution to early modern history / Michael J. Braddick -- Law, law-consciousness, and lawyers as constitutive of early modern England : Christopher W. Brooks's singular journey / David Sugarman -- "The hard rind of legal history" : F.W. Maitland and the writing of late medieval and early modern British social history / R.A. Houston -- Fountains of justice : James I, charles I and equity / R.W. Hoyle -- The inns of court, renaissance, and the language of modernity / Phil Withington -- The micro-spatial dynamics of litigation : the Chilvers Coton Tithe dispute, Barrows vs Archer / Steve Hindle -- "Law-mindedness" : crowds, courts, and popular knowledge of the law in early modern England / John Walter -- Local laws, local principles : the paradoxes of local legal processes in early modern England / Peter Rushton -- "So now you are wed enough" : clandestine unions in the North-West of England in the first half of the eighteenth century / Joanne Begiato -- "Blunderers and blotters of the law? the rise of conveyancing in the eighteenth century and long term socio-legal change" / Craig Muldrew -- 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 -- Law and architecture in early modern Durham / Adrian Green -- Law and revolution : the seventeenth century English example / W. Brooks -- Religion and law in early modern England / W. Brooks.

Call Number

JFE 19-9373

ISBN

• 9781108491723
• 1108491723

LCCN

2018058899

OCLC

1079402128

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-368) and index.

Added Author

Brooks, C. W., honouree.

Lobban, Michael, editor.

Begiato, Joanne, editor.

Green, Adrian (Adrian Gareth), editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108754118

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9373