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Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland - Essays in Honour of Paul Brand (Paperback)
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Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland - Essays in Honour of Paul Brand (Paperback)
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Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance
at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to
the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived
from later medieval England and Ireland, and medieval Europe in
general, are legal in nature. Yet despite the fact that law played
a prominent role in medieval society, legal history has long been a
marginal subject within medieval studies both in Britain and North
America. Much good work has been done in this field, but there is
much still to do. This volume, a collection of essays in honour of
Paul Brand, who has contributed perhaps more than any other
historian to our understanding of the legal developments of later
medieval England and Ireland, is intended to help fill this gap.
The essays collected in this volume, which range from the twelfth
to the sixteenth century, offer the latest research on a variety of
topics within this field of inquiry. While some consider familiar
topics, they do so from new angles, whether by exploring the
underlying assumptions behind England's adoption of trial by jury
for crime or by assessing the financial aspects of the General
Eyre, a core institution of jurisdiction in twelfth- and
thirteenth-century England. Most, however, consider topics which
have received little attention from scholars, from the significance
of judges and lawyers smiling and laughing in the courtroom to the
profits and perils of judicial office in English Ireland. The
essays provide new insights into how the law developed and
functioned within the legal profession and courtroom in late
medieval England and Ireland, as well as how it pervaded the
society at large.
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