Barristers constituted the most powerful and prosperous professional group in early modern England. In the half-century before the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640, this branch of the legal profession grew rapidly and underwent profound structural change. Wilfrid Prest systematically examines the effects of these changes on the barrister's working life, along with the changing balance between supply and demand for his services during this formative period.
Patterns of professional recruitment, training, and mobility have been reconstructed from the social origins and careers of some 500 individual lawyers, and separate chapters explore the participation of barristers in the cultural, religious, and political life of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. The book concludes by considering the nature and underlying causes of the largely unfavourable image of the early modern lawyer.
| ISBN: | 9780198202585 |
| Publication date: | 2nd May 1991 |
| Author: | Wilfrid R Prest |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 458 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Studies in Social History |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history European history Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law |
Barristers constituted the most powerful and prosperous professional group in early modern England. In the half-century before the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640, this branch of the legal profession grew rapidly and underwent profound structural change.
The Rise of the Barristers features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, European history, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law
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The Rise of the Barristers was written by Wilfrid R Prest and published by Clarendon Press
The Rise of the Barristers has 458 pages
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