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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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- 2011-02-17
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- Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521182263
ISBN-13
9780521182263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99550039
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
470 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Europe / Great Britain / General, Legal History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Review of the hardback: '… covers an impressively wide range of issues and material … The book gives strong support to further links between social, political and intellectual history, with law as a bridge … As an important contribution to many fields of early modern history, the book is a great success.' Edinburgh Law Review, 'Christopher Brooks examines Tudor and early Stuart English law both as a professional practice and a set of principles shaping national and local politics, constitutional theory, economics, landholding, and family life. He achieves striking breadth by combining the classic 'internalist' focus on legal training, institutional evolution, and litigation patterns with 'externalist' concerns about how law shaped society by allocating resources, adjudicating among competing claimants to power, and providing a grammar for conducting political and economic negotiations.' The Journal of Law and History Review, Review of the hardback: '… an outstanding contribution to early modern English history. It is not just a summary of what others have said, nor even of Brooks' own previous publications, for it is firmly grounded in extensive archival research that makes it an important and often original monograph in its own right. Balanced and fair, it has a quiet yet powerfully independent voice that makes it worth reading in its entirety. It can be warmly recommended for any course in late medieval and early modern social, economic and political history as well as being a work that all scholars of the period, whatever their particular interests, can peruse with pleasure and ponder with profit.' Journal of Continuity and Change, Review of the hardback: '... covers an impressively wide range of issues and material ... The book gives strong support to further links between social, political and intellectual history, with law as a bridge ... As an important contribution to many fields of early modern history, the book is a great success.' Edinburgh Law Review, Review of the hardback: '... an unusual and rewarding study of legal theory and practice.' Northern History, Review of the hardback: '... no early-modern historian of the British Isles, legal or otherwise, should be without this book. It is a notable achievement, over an astonishingly wide range, and will no doubt bear much fruit.' The Cambridge Law Journal, Review of the hardback: '... an outstanding contribution to early modern English history. It is not just a summary of what others have said, nor even of Brooks' own previous publications, for it is firmly grounded in extensive archival research that makes it an important and often original monograph in its own right. Balanced and fair, it has a quiet yet powerfully independent voice that makes it worth reading in its entirety. It can be warmly recommended for any course in late medieval and early modern social, economic and political history as well as being a work that all scholars of the period, whatever their particular interests, can peruse with pleasure and ponder with profit.' Journal of Continuity and Change, Review of the hardback: '… an unusual and rewarding study of legal theory and practice.' Northern History, "Based on a remarkable range of research, consistently thoughtful, and often fascinating, the book should obtain a wide readership among early modernists." -K. J. Kesselring, Journal of British Studies, "Brooks' ability to penetrate the fog of the law's technical language and to explain complicated legal instruments, procedures, and fictions in elegant and accessible prose therefore make this an invaluable work of reference as well as a book that deserves, and demands, to be read from cover to cover." -Tim Stretton, H-Albion, Review of the hardback: '… no early-modern historian of the British Isles, legal or otherwise, should be without this book. It is a notable achievement, over an astonishingly wide range, and will no doubt bear much fruit.' The Cambridge Law Journal
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
349.42
Table Of Content
1. English history and the history of English law 1485-1642; 2. Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors; 3. The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome; 4. Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century; 5. The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c.1610; 6. The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority; 7. The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s; 8. The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629-1642; 9. Law and 'community'; 10. The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law; 11. Economic and tenurial relationships; 12. The household and its members; 13. The person, the community and the state; 14. Conclusion.
Synopsis
Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law., This innovative and authoritative study transcends traditional distinctions between social, legal and political history. Brooks examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the mid-seventeenth century, and explains how law mediated and constituted a variety of social and economic relationships.
LC Classification Number
KD612.B76 2010
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