Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Número de páginas: 304 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 22-02-2024
EAN: 9780198904809
ISBN: 978-0-19-890480-9
Precio (sin IVA): 40,12 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 41,72 €
This book traces processes of literary training and experimentation across the early history of the English common law, from its beginnings in the reign of Henry II to its tumultuous consolidations under the reigns of John and Henry III. The period from the mid-twelfth through the thirteenth centuries witnessed an outpouring of innovative legal writing in England, from Magna Carta to the scores of statute books that preserved its provisions. An era of civil war and imperial fracture, it also proved a time of intensive self-definition, as communities both lay and ecclesiastic used law to articulate collective identities.