Title The law emprynted and Englysshed : the printing press as an agent of change in law and legal culture 1475-1642 / David J. Harvey

Published Oxford ; Portland, Ore. : Hart Publishing, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Regulating the Printing Press -- How the Law Struggled to Cope With a New Communications Technology -- 3. Lawyers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- A Readership for Law Printing -- 4. Putting the Law into Print -- 5. Printing the Law -- The Sixteenth-Century Phase -- 6. Law Printing in the Seventeenth Century -- Treatises and Other Texts -- 7. Conclusion Summary "This book considers the impact of the printing press within the context of the intellectual activity of the English legal profession in the 16th and 17th centuries. The legal profession had developed a sophisticated educational process and practice based upon an oral/aural system, along with the utilization of manuscript materials, largely self-created. The printing press provided an alternative to this culture as printed law books - law reports, abridgements, and treatises - became increasingly available and were used by lawyers and students. At the same time, movements were afoot to discard the arcane language of the law and make printed legal materials available in English. A tension arose as the advantages of print were recognized by the authorities - the Church and the State. Those very qualities also turned out to be disadvantages as the authorities struggled to regulate the vastly increased flow of information that the printing press enabled. The legal works printed in the 16th century were primarily law reports and abridgements with a new style of law report becoming evident with the printing of Plowden's Commentaries and, in the 17th century, the works of Sir Edward Coke. Print enabled legal writers to concentrate upon principle rather than pleading and procedure. The 17th century also saw a shift from printed reports to printed treatises and guide books for administrators and members of the "lower branch" of the legal profession. Legal information for the purposes of standardizing procedures and for educational purposes, as a supplement to a troubled traditional legal education system, began to dominate."--Bloomsbury Publishing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299) and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 30, 2015) Subject Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Printing industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century Printing industry -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Legal history. LAW -- Essays. LAW -- General Practice. LAW -- Jurisprudence. LAW -- Reference. Law Printing industry -- Law and legislation Buchdruck Verlag Justiz Recht Rechtskultur Wandel Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781782257325 1782257322 9781782257332 1782257330 9781474202473 1474202470 1849466688 9781849466684 1509914153 9781509914159

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