English Legal Histories

<i>English Legal Histories</i> is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended for students as well as a broader audience it takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped: the politics the economics the art the poetry. Reaching from the Reformation through to the age of Reform it tells stories the 'histories' of English law. Histories of the constitution and government of crime and contracts tort and trespass property and equity. Of the people who made that law those who wrote it and those who suffered it. For it is in the end a human story of justice and injustice of success and failure good luck and bad. The law is full of statutes and instruments cases and precedent but its history is full of people and peculiarity. Which is what of course makes it so endlessly fascinating.