Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England

Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660

By:

Paul Raffield

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

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This book offers an interesting interpretation of the hidden culture of the early modern legal profession and its influence on the development of the English constitution. It locates an alternative site of political sovereignty in the legal communities at the Inns of Court in London, examining the signs of legitimacy by which they sought to validate the claim that common law represented sovereign constitutional authority. The role of symbols in the culture of English law is central to the book's analysis. Within the framework of a cultural history of the legal profession from 1558 to 1660, the book considers the social presence of the law, revealed in its various signs. It analyses how institutional existence at the Inns of Court presented the legal community as an emblematic template for the English nation-state, defending the sovereignty of the Ancient Constitution by reference to the immemorial provenance of common law.

Author Biography:

Paul Raffield is Tutor in Constitutional Law and a guest lecturer in legal history, law and literature, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Release date Australia

November 29th, 2007

Author

Paul Raffield

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

304

Series

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Dimensions

152x228x20

ISBN-13

9780521044530

Product ID

1992303

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