Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

Written in memory of Christopher W. Brooks, this collection of essays by prominent historians examines and builds on the scholarly legacy of the leading histori

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relati

The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspec