Author: Helen Maud Cam
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Helen Maud Cam
Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: H. Cam
Publisher: Merlin Press
ISBN: 9780850360417
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Customary law has an ancient lineage in Britain, where it survived the Norman Conquest and became deeply embedded by the end of the Middle Ages. Kings, judges and parliament but also boroughs and shire-moots were the Law-finders and Law-makers who form the subject of this book.

Author: John Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317898001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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During the Anglo-Norman period a concept of law developed, binding ruler and ruled alike and which was based on custom common throughout the country. This was Common Law and it was from this that subsequent law developed. John Hudson's text is an introductory survey of Common Law for students and other non-specialist readers. Certain aspects of medieval law such as its feuds, its ordeals and its outlaws are well known, this text shows how these aspects fitted in to the system as a whole, considers its Anglo-Saxon origins, the influence of the Norman invaders and later administrative reforms. The events and legal processes also throw light on the society, politics and thought of the times.

Author: George Garnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521430760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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An important set of historical essays on England and Normandy from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

Author: Bryce Lyon
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Examines the period of the formation of the basic tenets of the British Constitution which form the basis for modern British and American government and legal tradition.

Author: Emily Steiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801487705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Scholars have long been aware of the looming presence of law in medieval English literature, from Christ as a litigious redemptor to Chaucer's deal-making Host in The Canterbury Tales. Most scholarly work on the subject has been confined either to tracking down representations of legal practices in texts or to examining formal questions relating to legal discourse. In a groundbreaking departure, The Letter of the Law suggests that law and literature should be understood as parallel forms of discourse -- at times complementary, at times antagonistic, but always mutually illuminating. Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington maintain that medievalists are uniquely placed to make valuable new contributions to the subject of law and literature, in part because of the inherently interdisciplinary nature of the study of medieval law, inseparable as it was from political theory and theology. Treating texts as varied as Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads, and William Thorpe's account of his own heresy trial, the nine never-before-published essays in this volume reveal the intersections of legal and documentary culture with vernacular literary production. They establish that law and English literature were intimately bound up in processes of institutional, linguistic, and social change, and they explain how the specific conditions of medieval law and literature offer useful models in studying later periods. An appendix contains a translation by Andrew Galloway of History or Narration Concerning the Manner and Form of the Miraculous Parliament at Westminster in the Year 1386.

Author: Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351666371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 949

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First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

Author: Anthony Musson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0851158420
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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The first systematic examination of the expectations people had of the law in the middle ages.

Author: Gwen Seabourne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134775970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval women’s treatment by and participation in the processes of the common law. Surveying a wide range of points of contact between women and the common law, from their appearance (or not) in statutes, through their participation (or not) as witnesses, to their treatment as complainants or defendants, it argues for closer consideration of women within the standard narratives of classical legal history, and for re-examination of some previous conclusions on the relationship between women and the common law. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in legal history, gender studies and the history of women.