Anthony Musson

Medieval law in context

The growth of legal consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. Provides a clear, structured view of judicial developments and experience of litigation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Offers a new perspective on both law and politics by focusing on the medium of legal consciousness and legal culture.. Makes the specialised area of law accessible for the general reader interested in the medieval period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780719054945
• ISBN-10: 071905494X
• Artikelnr.: 21569255

Autorenporträt

Anthony Musson is a Barrister of the Middle Temple and Lecturer in English Law at the University of Exeter

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of abbreviations Part One: Introduction: towards a psychology
of law 1. The role of ideology 2. The contexts of law 3. Law in the mind
Part Two: The professionalism of law 4. The intellectualising of the law 5.
Towards an identity as a profession 6. Practitoners and ethical
considerations 7. Judges and lawyers in society 8. Centre and periphery 9.
Perceptions of the legal profession Part Three: Pragmatic legal knowledge
10. Family and household 11. Communal obligations 12. Court attendance 13.
Church attendance 14. Experience of office-holding 15. Book learning and
literacy Part Four: Participation in the royal courts 16. Availability 17.
Actionability 18. Accountability 19. Accessibility Part five: The role of
Parliament 20. The high court of Parliament 21. The legal personnel of
Parliament 22. The regulation of everyday life Part Six: Conclusion: the
politicisation of law 23. Seeing and hearing the law: the king's role in
justice 24. Seeing and hearing the law: royal propaganda 25. Legitimacy
through the law 26. The world turned upside down Select bibliography Index