Author: William Hamilton Bryson
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Equity Cases in the Court of Exchequer, 1660 to 1714
Author: William Hamilton Bryson
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750
Author: Julia Rudolph
Publisher:
ISBN: 1843838044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The book demonstrates how the 'common law mind' was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse, revealing that the common law played a much wider role beyond the legal world in shaping Enlightenment concepts.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1843838044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The book demonstrates how the 'common law mind' was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse, revealing that the common law played a much wider role beyond the legal world in shaping Enlightenment concepts.
"The Great Trial"
Author: Tim Gates
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903564561
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Fully annotated edition of the records of a notorious eighteenth-century court case - and the first ever full publication of an equity exchequer case.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903564561
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Fully annotated edition of the records of a notorious eighteenth-century court case - and the first ever full publication of an equity exchequer case.
Punishing the dead?
Author: R. A. Houston
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191585122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What can we learn from suicide, that most personal and often inscrutable of acts? This strikingly original work shows how, from treatment of suicides in historic Britain, unique insights can be gained into the development of both social and political relationships and cultural attitudes in a period of profound change. Drawing ideas from a range of disciplines including law, philosophy, the social sciences, and literary studies as well as history, the book comprehensively analyses how successful and attempted suicide was viewed by the living and how they dealt with its aftermath, using a wide variety of legal, fiscal, and literary sources. By investigating the distinctive institutional environments and mental worlds of early modern England and Scotland, it explains why suicide was treated as a crime subject to financial and corporal punishments, and it questions modern assumptions about the apparent 'enlightenment' of attitudes in the eighteenth century. The book is divided into two parts. Part one examines the role of lordship in managing social and economic relationships following suicide and illuminates the importance of distinctive punishments inflicted on suicides' bodies for understanding historic communities. The second part of the book places suicide in its cultural context, analysing the attitudes of early modern people to those who killed themselves. It explores religious beliefs and the place of the devil as well as secular and medical understandings of suicide's causes in sources that include provincial newspapers. Informed by continental as well as British research, Punishing the Dead? explicitly compares England and Scotland, making this a completely British history. It also offers intriguing evidence for the importance of cultural regions and local vernaculars that transcend national boundaries.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191585122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
What can we learn from suicide, that most personal and often inscrutable of acts? This strikingly original work shows how, from treatment of suicides in historic Britain, unique insights can be gained into the development of both social and political relationships and cultural attitudes in a period of profound change. Drawing ideas from a range of disciplines including law, philosophy, the social sciences, and literary studies as well as history, the book comprehensively analyses how successful and attempted suicide was viewed by the living and how they dealt with its aftermath, using a wide variety of legal, fiscal, and literary sources. By investigating the distinctive institutional environments and mental worlds of early modern England and Scotland, it explains why suicide was treated as a crime subject to financial and corporal punishments, and it questions modern assumptions about the apparent 'enlightenment' of attitudes in the eighteenth century. The book is divided into two parts. Part one examines the role of lordship in managing social and economic relationships following suicide and illuminates the importance of distinctive punishments inflicted on suicides' bodies for understanding historic communities. The second part of the book places suicide in its cultural context, analysing the attitudes of early modern people to those who killed themselves. It explores religious beliefs and the place of the devil as well as secular and medical understandings of suicide's causes in sources that include provincial newspapers. Informed by continental as well as British research, Punishing the Dead? explicitly compares England and Scotland, making this a completely British history. It also offers intriguing evidence for the importance of cultural regions and local vernaculars that transcend national boundaries.
The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Re-reading Thomas Traherne
Author: Jacob Blevins
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Quakers and the English Legal System, 1660-1688
Author: Craig W. Horle
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802808
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The English and Empire Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The English and Empire Digest
Author: Hardinge Stanley Giffard Earl of Halsbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description