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Unwritten Verities : The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern SeriesPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268092900
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unwritten VeritiesDDC classification:
  • 340.5/7094209031
LOC classification:
  • KD610 .S634 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Reading and Writing in a Spoken World -- 2. Between Vernaculars -- 3. John Fortescue and Lancastrian Conciliarism -- Part 2: TRANSFORMATIONS -- 4. The Unwritten Verities of the Common Law -- 5. Pleading for English -- 6. States of Exception -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.
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Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: FOUNDATIONS -- 1. Reading and Writing in a Spoken World -- 2. Between Vernaculars -- 3. John Fortescue and Lancastrian Conciliarism -- Part 2: TRANSFORMATIONS -- 4. The Unwritten Verities of the Common Law -- 5. Pleading for English -- 6. States of Exception -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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