Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 / / Christopher W. Brooks
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| Autore: |
Brooks C. W.
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| Titolo: |
Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 / / Christopher W. Brooks
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 349.42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Law - Great Britain - History |
| Practice of law - Great Britain - History | |
| Courts - Great Britain - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Social conditions |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Litigants and Attorneys in the King''s Bench and Common Pleas, 1560-1640; 3 Interpersonal Conflict and Social Tension: Civil Litigation in England, 1640-1830; 4 Litigation and Society in England, 1200-1996; 5 The Decline and Rise of the English Legal Profession, 1700-1850; 6 Apprenticeship and Legal Training in England, 1700-1850; 7 Law, Lawyers and the Social History of England, 1500-1800; 8 The Place of Magna Carta and the ''Ancient Constitution'' in Sixteenth-Century English Legal Thought |
| 9 Professions, Ideology and the ''Middling Sort of People'', 1550-1650Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays roughly half of which are previously unpublished, approaches the law from two different angles: the uses made of courts and the fluctuations in the fortunes of the legal profession. Based on extensive original research, his work has helped to redefine the parameters of British legal history, away from procedural development and the refinement of legal doctrine and towards the real impact that the law had in society. He also places |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-4445-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786906703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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