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Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by the advance of science and the growing power of knowledge.
A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, covering the period from 1500 to 1680, explores the war of jurisdictions and the slow and contested emergence of national legal traditions in continental Europe and in Britannia. Most particularly, the chapters examine the European quality of the Western legal traditions and seek to link the political project of Anglican common law, the
mos britannicus, to its classical European language and context.
Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources,
A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction: The Great Dialogue, Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, USA
1. Justice, Valérie Hayaert, Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, France
2. Constitution, Susan Byrne, University of Nevada, USA
3. Codes: Redressing London - sumptuary laws and the control of clothing in the early modern city, Sophie Pitman, University of Cambridge, UK
4. Agreements, Laurent de Sutter, Vrije Universiteit, Belgium
5. Arguments: The Visual Mediation of Arguments in the Renaissance, Piyel Haldar, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
6. Property and Possession, Thanos Zartaloudis, University of Kent, UK and Richard Braude, University of Cambridge, UK
7. Wrongs, Chloë Kennedy, University of Edinburgh, UK and Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow, UK
8. Legal Profession: Tudor laws and lawyers in an age of litigation, Dominique Goy-Blanquet, University of Picardie, France
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law, and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.
Summary
Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by the advance of science and the growing power of knowledge. A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, covering the period from 1500 to 1680, explores the war of jurisdictions and the slow and contested emergence of national legal traditions in continental Europe and in Britannia. Most particularly, the chapters examine the European quality of the Western legal traditions and seek to link the political project of Anglican common law, the mos britannicus, to its classical European language and context.
Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
Foreword
A thematic overview of law and its role in Western society and culture in the Early Modern period.
