The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar, 1590-1640

ISBN-13: 9780198217640 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 440 str.

Wilfrid R. Prest

Opis

The barristers were the most powerful and prosperous professional group in early modern England. This book systematically examines the barrister's working life during a half-century of rapid growth and structural change within the legal profession. Prest analyzes patterns of professional recruitment, training, and mobility and explores the participation of barristers in the cultural, religious, and political life of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This is the first book to be published in the Oxford Studies in Social History, under the general editorship of Keith Thomas. The series, which will cover all periods and parts of the world, will include original works of scholarship on a broad range of subjects of interest to historians as well as to scholars working in related fields.

Recenzje

`Dr. Prest's prose is a constant revelation. Within the last few years there have been published a number of distinguished scholarly volumes on the history of the English legal profession. Dr. Prest's new volume is another notable accretion to this excellent collection.' W.N. Osborough, The Irish Jurist, Volume XXIII, 1988

Spis treści

List of tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Business of the Bar; Demand and Supply; Group Porttrait; Advancement; Lawyers and Letters; Religion; Government and Politics; Law, Lawyers and Litigants; Appendices; Index