Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts - 1590-1640

Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, London's four inns of court were both professional associations of practising lawyers, and liberal academies for laymen, so directly involved in the cultural, political, religious, and social ferment of the age. This is a revised and updated new edition of a classic work.

List of contents

1. Dimensions; 2. The quality of membership; 3. Ranks of membership; 4. Administration and government; 5. Discipline and disorder; 6. Learning the law; 7. Legal and liberal education; 8. Papists; 9. Preachers, puritans and the religion of lawyers; 10. The Inns of Court and the English revolution.

About the author

Wilfrid R. Prest AM is Professor Emeritus of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide, a senior fellow of Queen's College in the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society. He has published widely on the social history of law and lawyers in early modern England.

Summary

Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, London's four inns of court were both professional associations of practising lawyers, and liberal academies for laymen, so directly involved in the cultural, political, religious, and social ferment of the age. This is a revised and updated new edition of a classic work.

Foreword

Comprehensive study of the early modern inns of court, based on original sources, now revised and updated with recent scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Wilfred R. Prest, Wilfrid R. Prest, Wilfrid R. (University of Adelaide) Prest, Prest Wilfrid R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781108845380
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84538-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History; Cambridge Studies in English L
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Legal History, Legal History