The Oxford History of the Laws of England: 1483-1558

John Hamilton Baker

Oxford University Press, 2003 - Law - 964 pages

'There can be no doubt that this series will stand as an enduring testament to the sheer fecundity of the contemporary study of English legal history.' -Law Quarterly Review'Despite the mass of scholarship shoe-horned into its pages, great care has been taken that this volume should be reasonably accessible to non-specialists and it is... an excellent volume.' -Law Quarterly ReviewThis, the first volume to appear in the landmark new Oxford History of the Laws of England series, covers the years 1483 - 1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual change, which profoundly affected the law and its workings.Readership: Libraries and scholars, some practitioners (changes detailed in this volume are fundamental to an understanding of the common law), historians interested in the early Tudor period, legal historians.

About the author

J. H. Baker is currently Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen's Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Oxford History of the Laws of England: 1483-1558; EBSCO ebook academic collection; The Oxford History of the Laws of England Series Isbn 0-19-961352-4 Series; Volume 6 of The Oxford History of the Laws of England, John Hamilton Baker, ISBN 019925883X, 9780199258833
• Author: John Hamilton Baker
• Editor: John Hamilton Baker
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0198258178, 9780198258179
• Length: 964 pages
• Subjects: Law / Legal History