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OverviewA study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlightenment. This book explores how English legal culture, deeply imbued with the ideas and practices of common law, engaged with the new intellectual, institutional and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. It argues that common law survivedas an important part of English legal culture because it was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse. Drawing on works of jurisprudence, legal histories, manuals of law and notebooks of legal practice, and looking in detail at four pivotal, widely-discussed cases, the book illuminates the ways in which common law custom and tradition continued to be valued foundations for the authority of law, even during a period of political change, commercial growth and philosophical rationalism. Exploring the challenges to and adaptations within common law thinking in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the book reveals that the common law played a much wider role beyond the legal world in shaping Enlightenment concepts. JULIA RUDOLPH is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Revolution by Degrees: James Tyrrell and Whig Political Thought in the Late Seventeenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and of various articles on gender, crime, and the history of the book in early modern England. She has also edited a collection of theoretical and interdisciplinary essays entitled History and Nation (Bucknell University Press, 2006). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julia Rudolph (Customer)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: The Boydell Press Volume: v. 15 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781843838043ISBN 10: 1843838044 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 18 April 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAgainst decline Law books, legal knowledge and enlightened encyclopedism Expertise and evidentiary practices in science and law Common law, credit and the growth of commerce Common law jurisprudence and the philosophy of natural law Common law and the morality of markets Legal histories and enlightened historiography ConclusionReviewsJulia Rudolph's aim in this rich and broad-ranging book is to challenge this interpretation of the eighteenth century decline of common-law jurisprudence into irrelevance. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY A significant scholarly achievement [and] an enormously important exercise in cultural and intellectual history. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY Julia Rudolph's aim in this rich and broad-ranging book is to challenge this interpretation of the eighteenth century decline of common-law jurisprudence into irrelevance. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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