Sir John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen's Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

This volume of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, the first of twelve volumes to appear in print, is a remarkable achievement. A work of vast erudition, based on exhaustive research in the manuscript as well as printed sources, it provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law during the early Tudor period while also presenting a unifying thesis that is rare in works of this sort. To the extent that the volume incorporates much of Baker's earlier scholarship, it also serves as a monument to his unrivaled contribution to the field of early modern English legal history.

• Preface ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; Table of Cases ; Table of Statutes ; I. English Law and the Renaissance ; II. The Constitution ; III. Courts ; IV. Civil Proceedure and Pleading ; V. The Legal Profession and its Learning ; VI. Criminal Law and Procedure ; VII. Persons ; VIII. The Law of Property ; IX. The Law of Torts ; X. The Law of Contract ; Bibliography ; Index of People and Places ; Index of Matters

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen's Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

This volume of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, the first of twelve volumes to appear in print, is a remarkable achievement. A work of vast erudition, based on exhaustive research in the manuscript as well as printed sources, it provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law during the early Tudor period while also presenting a unifying thesis that is rare in works of this sort. To the extent that the volume incorporates much of Baker's earlier scholarship, it also serves as a monument to his unrivaled contribution to the field of early modern English legal history.

• Preface ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; Table of Cases ; Table of Statutes ; I. English Law and the Renaissance ; II. The Constitution ; III. Courts ; IV. Civil Proceedure and Pleading ; V. The Legal Profession and its Learning ; VI. Criminal Law and Procedure ; VII. Persons ; VIII. The Law of Property ; IX. The Law of Torts ; X. The Law of Contract ; Bibliography ; Index of People and Places ; Index of Matters

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen's Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

This volume of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, the first of twelve volumes to appear in print, is a remarkable achievement. A work of vast erudition, based on exhaustive research in the manuscript as well as printed sources, it provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law during the early Tudor period while also presenting a unifying thesis that is rare in works of this sort. To the extent that the volume incorporates much of Baker's earlier scholarship, it also serves as a monument to his unrivaled contribution to the field of early modern English legal history.

• Preface ; Contents ; Abbreviations ; Table of Cases ; Table of Statutes ; I. English Law and the Renaissance ; II. The Constitution ; III. Courts ; IV. Civil Proceedure and Pleading ; V. The Legal Profession and its Learning ; VI. Criminal Law and Procedure ; VII. Persons ; VIII. The Law of Property ; IX. The Law of Torts ; X. The Law of Contract ; Bibliography ; Index of People and Places ; Index of Matters