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Zusatztext Throughout, Ward has written English Legal Histories with an accessible writing style which is designed for both a student and a broader audience. He takes us beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped. Informationen zum Autor Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of a number of books on law, literature and history including Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives (1995), Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination (1999), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities (2004), Law, Text, Terror (2009) and Law and the Brontes (2011).A new history of English Law by an eminent scholar of the subject, taking account of the latest scholarship. Zusammenfassung English Legal Histories is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended for students as well as a broader audience! it takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases! and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped: the politics! the economics! the art! the poetry. Reaching from the Reformation through to the age of Reform! it tells stories! the 'histories'! of English law. Histories of the constitution and government! of crime and contracts! tort and trespass! property and equity. Of the people who made that law! those who wrote it! and those who suffered it. For it is in the end a human story! of justice and injustice! of success and failure! good luck and bad. The law is full of statutes and instruments! cases and precedent! but its history is full of people and peculiarity. Which is what! of course! makes it so endlessly fascinating. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I 1613 1. England in 1613 2. 1613: Constitutional Law 3. 1613: Criminal Law 4. 1613: Private Law 5. 1613: Property Law PART II 1765 6. England in 1765 7. 1765: Constitutional Law 8. 1765: Criminal Law 9. 1765: Private Law 10. 1765: Property Law PART III 1887 11. England in 1887 12. 1887: Constitutional Law 13. 1887: Criminal Law 14. 1887: Private Law 15. 1887: Property Law ...
