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English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages

English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages PDF Author: Elizabeth M. Makowski
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other ""men of law"" who actually conducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown, following the increased professionalism of legal practitioners during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been.