The Law Emprynted and Englysshed: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

Legal History

The Law Emprynted and Englysshed: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

By David J. Harvey
Hart Publishing February 2015

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781849466684
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
February 2015
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Paperback

Details

What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War.

It offers a new perspective on the purposes and structures of the regulation of the printing press and considers how and why lawyers used the new technology. It examines the way in which lawyers adapted to the use of printed works and the way in which the new technology increased the availability of texts and books for lawyers and the administrative community. It also considers the wider humanist context within which law printing developed.

The story is set against the backdrop of revolutionary changes in English society and the move not only to print the law, but also increase its accessibility by making information available in English. The book will be of interest to lawyers and legal historians, print and book historians and the general reader.

Table of 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
HKD 1,387.10 −3%
HKD 1,430.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Legal History

View all
Custom as a Source of Law
Cambridge University Press

Custom as a Source of Law

David J. Bederman
HKD 428.61
Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2
Edinburgh University Press

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2

John W. Cairns
HKD 1,345.50
Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries
Cambridge University Press

Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries

Shyamkrishna Balganesh; Ted M. Sichelman; Henry E. Smith
HKD 1,651.91
New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History
Taylor & Francis

New Perspectives in Scottish Legal History

Albert Kiralfy; Hector L. MacQueen
HKD 624.00
The American Experience of British Prize Law, 1776-1804
Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The American Experience of British Prize Law, 1776-1804

Suzanne Amy Foxley
HKD 1,263.50
Performing Libel in the Provinces: Community Conflict in Early Modern England
Oxford University Press

Performing Libel in the Provinces: Community Conflict in Early Modern England

Clare Egan
HKD 1,109.68