Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America

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Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America

By Wilfrid Prest
Routledge December 2025

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ISBN-13
9781032630762
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
December 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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First published in 1981, Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America aims to present a convenient conspectus on the legal professions in early modern Europe, Scotland, France Spain and Colonial America, and to provide a comparative perspective on the place of the legal profession in Western societies before the Industrial Revolution. The main themes covered by each contributor are: the status, number and vocational functions of the different classes or groups or lawyers; their social origins; education and career patterns; relations between lawyers and clients, other occupations and status-groups and the state; the extent of legal 'professionalisation' and the role of lawyers as 'modernisers' in cultural, economic, political and social terms.

This book will be of interest to students of history, law and political science.

Table of Contents

New Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The English Legal Profession, 1450-1550
2. The Common Lawyers in England, c.
1558-1642
3. The English Bar, 1550-1700
4. The English Bar in the Georgian Era
5. The English Civilians, 1500-1750
6. The Legal Profession in Colonial North America
7. The Advocates, the Law and the Nation in Early Modern Scotland
8. Lawyers in Pre-revolutionary France
9. Lawyers and Litigation in Castle, 1500-1750

Notes on Contributors
Index
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