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This, the first volume to appear in the landmark new Oxford History of the Laws of England series, covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual change, which profoundly affected the law and its workings.
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J. H. Baker is currently 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.
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"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."--Law and History Review
J. H. Baker is currently 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."--Law and History Review
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- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0198258178
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- Number of pages1120
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