The so-called 'upper branch' of English lawyers has traditionally been associated with a highly ritualised collective life, locared in their inns, messes and courtrooms, and expressed in elaborate rituals and distinctive conventions of dress. Indeed, counsellors and judges may be unique among the lay professions for their lengthy history of participatory ceremonial. This essay suggests that changes in the lawyers' collective life between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries may illuminate decisive developments in the structure and culture of the legal profession and its connections with the state and English people. The final sections of the paper discuss the rather fragmented forms of collective life which characterised barristers ...
The development of a secular legal profession in the 16th century compromised the sacerdotal role en...
The thesis presents a social history of the development of solicitors as a professionalgroup in Manc...
This thesis tests the models of Class and Roles on Early Modern English society through documents fr...
This book offers an interesting interpretation of the hidden culture of the early modern legal profe...
Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social r...
At various dates between the early sixteenth century and the early nineteenth century the ratio of l...
In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of ...
Between 1580 and 1640, memory became increasingly important in diverse areas of English legal cultur...
This new history examines the development of the professions in England, centering on churchmen, law...
The thesis provides an analysis of an occupation in the process of making itself a profession. The s...
In exploring the origins and development of professional legal attorneys by reference to thirteenth-...
About The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century: Law and legal institutions were of huge ...
[N]or the laws of any Christian kingdom, are so rooted in antiquity. Hence there is no gainsaying no...
This thesis is an investigation of the processes of pupillage, or barristers' apprenticeship in cham...
This article investigates the ways in which entry to the legal profession in early modern Europe was...
The development of a secular legal profession in the 16th century compromised the sacerdotal role en...
The thesis presents a social history of the development of solicitors as a professionalgroup in Manc...
This thesis tests the models of Class and Roles on Early Modern English society through documents fr...
This book offers an interesting interpretation of the hidden culture of the early modern legal profe...
Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social r...
At various dates between the early sixteenth century and the early nineteenth century the ratio of l...
In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of ...
Between 1580 and 1640, memory became increasingly important in diverse areas of English legal cultur...
This new history examines the development of the professions in England, centering on churchmen, law...
The thesis provides an analysis of an occupation in the process of making itself a profession. The s...
In exploring the origins and development of professional legal attorneys by reference to thirteenth-...
About The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century: Law and legal institutions were of huge ...
[N]or the laws of any Christian kingdom, are so rooted in antiquity. Hence there is no gainsaying no...
This thesis is an investigation of the processes of pupillage, or barristers' apprenticeship in cham...
This article investigates the ways in which entry to the legal profession in early modern Europe was...
The development of a secular legal profession in the 16th century compromised the sacerdotal role en...
The thesis presents a social history of the development of solicitors as a professionalgroup in Manc...
This thesis tests the models of Class and Roles on Early Modern English society through documents fr...