Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt
By (Author) Anthony Musson
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
17th May 2001
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Systems of law
Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
History of ideas
340.55
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 15mm
336g
Description
This is an examination of how medieval people at all social levels thought about law, justice and politics, as well as their role in society. The author provides both a history of judicial developments in the 13th and 14th centuries and contributes to the understanding of intellectual history in the period. Each chapter focuses on a different facet of legal culture and experiences, and enables the reader to enter the realms of both perception and reality. Taken cumulatively, they combine to offer a picture of the state of legal consciousness: an ideological context in which to set the political and judicial developments that were occurring during the two centuries of tremendous social change.
Author Bio
Anthony Musson is a Barrister of the Middle Temple and Lecturer in English Law at the University of Exeter
