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A Medieval Book and Early-Modern Law: Bracton's Authority and Application in the Common Law C.1550-1640 / by Ian Williams

:: SSRN This article considers the place of the thirteenth-century book known as Bracton in the early-modern common law. Using methods from the history of reading, it examines both the uses made of Bracton and the evidence to be found in the surviving copies of the first printed edition. It addresses the impediments to the use of Bracton, the printing of the first edition, the text’s readership and its place in the early-modern common-law canon.

The second half of the article ... Bracton was a recognized source for criminal law and there is some evidence of impact on the law of evidence, servitudes and a little for contract law. An examination of the early-modern law of treason shows that Bracton had an important role in changing the concept of treason from a crime against the monarch to something like the much broader classical crimen laesae maiestatis. The article demonstrates that legal historians should be concerned to identify not only what lawyers read, but how they read it.

reading history law Bracton Williams 2011 common_law from delicious
february 2012 by freemoth

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Is there a future for law books? / Jason Wilson

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