Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750 (UK)

Contributor(s): Rudolph, Julia (Author)

ISBN: 9781843838043

Publisher: Boydell Press

Hardcover

$130.00

Pub Date: April 18, 2013

Dewey: 340.57

LCCN: 2013371075

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 9.40" L x 6.30" W ( 1.70 lbs) 338 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social Histo

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: A study of how English legal culture, with its strong emphasis on common law, engaged with the new ideas of the Enlightenment.

Review Quotes: 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"

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