Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660

ISBN-13: 9780521827393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Paul Raffield; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy

Opis

Examining aspects of law, history, art, drama and literature, this study represents an original interpretation of a hidden culture: the arcane world of the early modern legal community, and its attempts to restrict governmental power during the period 1558 to 1660. Based at the Inns of Court in London, the legal profession regulated every aspect of its members' lives--dress, consumption, education, worship, entertainment, and even their dwellings--to represent the order of an ideal commonwealth, which it offered as a model for the government of the English State.

Recenzje

'This revealing work offers an original interpretation of early legal culture and emphasises the historic powers of the Inns of Court.' The Times

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Eating, learning and revering the law: oral traditions and the religious inheritance; 2. Architecture and heraldry: bodies of law, myth and honour; 3. Revels, feasting and role-playing: dreamland, drunkenness and the Utopian state; 4. The theatre of law: dramatic symbols of crown, common law and the Ancient Constitution; 5. Reformation, regulation and the image: the English state and the subject of law; 6. Common lawyers, fundamental law and the idolatrous mask of Charles I; 7. Interregnum: lex, ius and de facto government; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.