Law-finders and Law-makers in Medieval England
Author | : Helen Maud Cam |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Helen Maud Cam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : H. Cam |
Publisher | : Merlin Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1990-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780850360417 |
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 | : Cam |
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Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Helen Maud Cam |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
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Author | : Thomas Benedict Lambert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019878631X |
Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King AEthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless, and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a variant or hybrid of these models. Tom Lambert elucidates a distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly libertarian and communitarian features as complementary. Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and patchy network of administrative officials.
Author | : A. Harding |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429558740 |
Originally published in 1973 The Law Courts of Medieval England looks at law courts as the most developed institutions existing in the medieval times. Communities crystallized upon them and the governments worked through them. This book describes the scope and procedures of the different courts, appointment of the judges, the beginnings of civil and criminal courts, the origin of the jury system and other aspects of the modern legal system. It is all shown by an analysis of actual reports of court cases of the time, giving a vivid picture of the life of the English people as well as of the ways of the professional lawyers, no less intricate than they are today.
Author | : Joanne Begiato |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108491723 |
Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.
Author | : Lorren Eldridge |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 100090055X |
This book expands on established doctrine in legal history and sets out a challenge for legal philosophers. The English medieval village community offers a historical and philosophical lens on the concept of custom which challenges accepted notions of what law is. The book traces the study of the medieval village community from early historical works in the nineteenth century through to current research. It demonstrates that some law-making can and has been ‘bottom-up’ in English law, with community-led decisionmaking having a particularly important role in the early common law. The detailed consideration of law in the English village community reveals alternative ways of making and conceiving of law which are not dependent on state authority, particularly in relation to customary and communal property rights. Acknowledging this poses challenges for legal theory: the legal positivism that dominates Western legal philosophy tends to reject custom as a source of law. However, this book argues that medieval customary law ought to be considered ‘law’ if we are ever going to fully understand law – both then and now. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of Legal History, Legal Theory, and Jurisprudence.
Author | : S. H. Rigby |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470998776 |
This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
Author | : Geraldine Barnes |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780859913621 |
Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance.