Anthony Musson

Medieval Law in Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering an important new perspective on medieval political, legal, and social history in England, Anthony Musson examines how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice, politics, and their role in society. He provides a history of judicial developments in the 13th and 14th centuries, while interweaving within each chapter a special focus on different facets of legal culture and experience. This illuminating approach reveals a comprehensive picture of two centuries worth of tremendous social change.

Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Studies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780719054938
• ISBN-10: 0719054931
• Artikelnr.: 21569975

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