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Law Reform in Early Modern England

Author : Barbara J Shapiro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509934235
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Law Reform in Early Modern England written by Barbara J Shapiro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (1500–1740) and views the moves to improve law and legal institutions in the context of changing political and governmental environments. Taking a fresh look at law reform over several centuries, it explores the efforts of the king and parliament, and the body of literature supporting law reform that emerged with the growth of print media, to assess the place of the well-known attempts of the revolutionary era in the context of earlier and later movements. Law reform is seen as a long term concern and a longer time frame is essential to understand the 1640–1660 reform measures. The book considers two law reform movements: the moderate movement which had a lengthy history and whose chief supporters were the governmental and parliamentary elites, and which focused on improving existing law and legal institutions, and the radical reform movement, which was concentrated in the revolutionary decades and which sought to overthrow the common law, the legal profession and the existing system of courts. Informed by attention to the institutional difficulties in completing legislation, this highlights the need to examine particular parliaments. Although lawyers have often been seen as the chief obstacles to law reform, this book emphasises their contributions – particularly their role in legislation and in reforming the corpus of legal materials – and highlights the previously ignored reform efforts of Lord Chancellors.

Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

Author : Christopher W. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139475297
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England written by Christopher W. Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Law Reform in Early Modern England 1500-1740

Author : Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781509934249
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Law Reform in Early Modern England 1500-1740 written by Barbara J. Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England

Author : Joanne Begiato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491723
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England written by Joanne Begiato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

A History of Law in Europe

Author : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180694
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A History of Law in Europe written by Antonio Padoa-Schioppa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.

Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

Author : Virginia Lee Strain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474416306
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature written by Virginia Lee Strain and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

A History of Divorce Law

Author : Henry Kha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000286681
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A History of Divorce Law written by Henry Kha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years. The legal history of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 is at the heart of the book. The Act had a transformative impact on English law and society by introducing a secular judicial system of civil divorce. This swept aside the old system of divorce that was only obtainable from the House of Lords and inadvertently led to the creation of the modern family justice system. The book argues that only through understanding the legal doctrine in its wider cultural, political, religious, and social context is it possible to fully analyse and assess the changes brought about by the Act. The major developments included the end of any pretence of the indissolubility of marriage, the statutory enshrinement of a double standard based on gender in the grounds for divorce, and the growth of divorce across all spectrums of English society. The Act was a product of political and legal compromise between conservative forces resisting the legal introduction of civil divorce and the reformers, who demanded married women receive equal access to the grounds of divorce. Changing attitudes towards divorce that began in the Edwardian period led to a gradual rejection of Victorian moral values and the repeal of the Act after 80 years of existence in the Interwar years. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers with an interest in legal history, family law, and Victorian studies.

Law and Authority in Early Modern England

Author : Thomas Garden Barnes
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139594
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Law and Authority in Early Modern England written by Thomas Garden Barnes and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with four themes: common law and its rivals, the growth in parliamentary authority, the assertion of royal authority, and royal authority and the governed.

The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317036670
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England written by Mark Fortier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes-this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'. In this study Mark Fortier addresses the concept of equity from early in the sixteenth century until 1660, drawing on the work of lawyers, jurists, politicians, kings and parliamentarians, theologians and divines, poets, dramatists, colonists and imperialists, radicals, royalists, and those who argue on gender issues. He examines how writers in all these groups make use of the word equity and its attendant notions. Equity, he argues, is a powerful concept in the period; he analyses how notions of equity play a prominent part in discourses that have or seek to have influence on major social conflicts and issues in early modern England. Fortier here maps the actual and extensive presence of equity in the intellectual life of early modern England. In so doing, he reveals how equity itself acts as an umbrella term for a wide array of ideas, which defeats any attempt to limit narrowly the meaning of the term. He argues instead that there is in early modern England a distinct and striking culture of equity characterized and strengthened by the diversity of its genealogy and its applications. This culture manifests itself, inter alia, in the following major ways: as a basic component, grounded in the old and new testaments, of a model for Christian society; as the justification for a justice system over and above the common law; as an imperative for royal prerogative; as a free ranging subject for poetry and drama; as a nascent grounding for broadly cast social justice; as a rallying cry for revolution and individual rights and freedoms. Working from an empirical account of the many meanings of equity over time, the author moves from a historical understanding of equity to a theorization of equity in its multiplicity. A profoundly literary study, this book also touches on matters of legal an

A Century of Law Reform

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Law Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

Author : C. W. Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107188853
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England written by C. W. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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." --Book Jacket.

A Century of Law Reform

Author : Council Of Legal Education (Gr Britain)
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781313402590
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Law Reform written by Council Of Legal Education (Gr Britain) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age

Author : Gary Watt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474212646
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age written by Gary Watt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1. A cultural history of law in antiquity / edited by Julen Etxabe, University of Helsinki, Finland -- Volume 2. A cultural history of law in the middle ages / edited by Emanuele Conte, Roma Tre University, Italy and EHESS, Paris, France and Laurent Mayali, University of California at Berkeley, USA -- Volume 3. A cultural history of law in the early modern age / edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA -- Volume 4. A cultural history of law in the age of enlightenment / edited by Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick, UK and John Snape, University of Warwick, UK -- Volume 5. A cultural history of law in the age of reform / edited by Ian Ward, Newcastle University, UK -- Volume 6. A cultural history of law in the modern age / edited by Richard K Sherwin, New York University Law School, USA and Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney, Australia

Remapping Early Modern England

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521664097
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Remapping Early Modern England written by Kevin Sharpe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new and previously-published essays on the culture of the English Renaissance state.

A Century of Law Reform

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Law Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

England's Culture Wars

Author : B. S. Capp
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199641781
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book England's Culture Wars written by B. S. Capp and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores what happened once the monarchy had been swept away after the civil war and puritans found themselves in power. Examines campaigns to regulate sexual behaviour, reform language, and suppress Christmas traditions, disorderly sports, and popular music. Shows how reformers, despite meeting defiance and evasion, could have a major impact.

The Legal Epic

Author : Alison A. Chapman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643527X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Legal Epic written by Alison A. Chapman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England’s history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history. Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton’s Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the early modern period’s long fascination with law and judicial processes. Milton’s world saw law and religion as linked disciplines and thought therefore that in different ways, both law and religion should reflect the will of God. Throughout Paradise Lost, Milton invites his readers to judge actions using not only reason and conscience but also core principles of early modern jurisprudence. Law thus informs Milton’s attempt to “justify the ways of God to men” and points readers toward the types of legal justice that should prevail on earth. Adding to the growing interest in the cultural history of law, The Legal Epic shows that England’s preeminent epic poem is also a sustained reflection on the role law plays in human society.