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Title Law, governance, and justice : new views on medieval constitutionalism / edited by Richard W. Kaeuper with the assistance of Paul Dingman and Peter Sposato
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Series Medieval law and its practice ; v. 14
Medieval law and its practice ; v. 14.
Contents Debating law, justice and constitutionalism / Richard W. Kaeuper -- The Anglo-Saxon origins of English constitutionalism / James Campbell -- Orality and literacy in the age of the Angevin law reforms / Paul Hyams -- Between England and France: a cross-channel legal culture in the late thirteenth century / Thomas J. McSweeney -- The development of written custom in England and in France : a comparative perspective / Ada-Maria Kuskowski -- Success and failure of the medieval constitution in 1341 / Scott Waugh -- Parliamentary scrutiny of royal ministers and courtiers in fourteenth-century England : the disgrace of Sir John atte Lee (1368) / W. Mark Ormrod -- The altered perspective of Thomas Walsingham's symbol of Normandy / Christopher Guyol -- Centre and locality: perceptions of the assize justices in late medieval England / Anthony Musson -- The common voice in theory and practice in late fourteenth century England / Andrew Galloway -- Landscape and the identity of the realm / Lynn Staley -- The people, politics and the constitution in the fifteenth century / Anthony Pollard -- Law, justice, and governance : new views on medieval constitutionalism / G.W. Bernard
Summary How law and governance operated in Medieval England-and whether contemporaries saw justice in its operations-have long generated scholarly discussions. Thirteen scholars, established and younger figures, historians and literary analysts, offer their new views in this volume
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Constitutional history -- England -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Constitutional history, Medieval -- Congresses
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Constitutional history
Constitutional history, Medieval
England
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Kaeuper, Richard W., editor
Dingman, Paul, editor
Sposato, Peter, editor
LC no. 2012043177
ISBN 9004236422
9789004236424