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Anthony Musson - Private Worlds of Men of Law, 1258-1558, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Private Worlds of Men of Law, 1258-1558

Av Anthony Musson

1221 kr

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This interdisciplinary study explores both the professional and personal lives of medieval and early Tudor lawyers, offering new insights into the evolution of the legal profession and the values of early modern society.Employing a mix of group analysis and specific examples, Musson highlights lawyers' social aspirations and dynastic ambitions, their achievements and disappointments, and their attempts to merge into gentry culture. In particular, he reveals key aspects of their private lives: from personal details and individual characteristics, their religious beliefs and the nature of their marriages and alliances to where they lived, what they built and how they conducted themselves in society. By providing an historical reconstruction of the social milieu and ethos of the whole spectrum of ‘men of law’, from senior judges and specialist pleaders to locally-focused practitioners based in the provinces, this book emphasizes the social and cultural impact of the legal profession on medieval and early Tudor England.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-01-21
  • Mått: 156 x 236 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 760 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 392
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350608160
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Anthony Musson is Head of Research at Historic Royal Palaces and is leading the AHRC-funded project ‘Henry VIII on Tour: Landscape, Communities and Performance’. This book arose from an ESRC-funded project ‘Lawyers in Society, 1258-1558’ conducted while he was Professor of Legal History at the University of Exeter, UK.

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Anthony Musson has written a masterful, compelling and original work of historical anthropology analysing and describing the ‘private worlds’ outside the court room of late medieval and early Tudor lawyers and utilising a wide range of primary material which includes not just written evidence (mainly from lawyers’ wills) but also material evidence such as funerary monuments, commemorative windows and the surviving buildings lawyers erected or converted. This material provides us with a real insight into the minds of these lawyers and the strategies they used to translate professional success into wider social acceptance and esteem not just for the lawyers but also for their descendants and allows us to appreciate their religious faith and their charitable works and philanthropy.

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