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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 January 2023
      05 January 2023
      ISBN:
      9781108955737
      9781108845380
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955737
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 332 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Legal History, Law, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Legal History, Law, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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    The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's comprehensive study based on original sources surveys the structure and functions of the inns, outlining key aspects, from tensions between junior and senior members to the nature and effectiveness of their educational role. Its lively prose locates the inns within the cultural, political, religious, and social context of Shakespearean and pre-civil war England. This corrected and revised second edition of a classic work addresses recent scholarship on the early modern inns of court and includes a new chapter introducing the book to twenty-first-century readers.

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    ‘Written with a mastery of the subject that only experience and long familiarity with scholarship can give, the second edition shows the same enthusiasm for the subject as the original work. The admirable precision in its details is coupled with a plain and highly enjoyable prose, which will no doubt captivate the reader.’

    Guido Rossi Source: H-Net Reviews

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