Exploration of manuscript records and civil law sources to provide a fuller account of the history of the legal profession in England.

Historians of the English legal profession have written comparatively little about the lawyers who served in the courts of the Church. This volume fills a gap;

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, profess

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