Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin

This work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..

First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Sco

Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays ro