Common Law and Enlightenment in England, 1689-1750

by Julia Rudolph

This book explores how English legal culture, deeply imbued with the ideas and practices of common law, engaged with the new intellectual, institutional and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. It argues that common law survived as an important part of English legal culture because it was able to meet the various challenges posed by Enlightenment rationalism and civic and commercial discourse. Drawing on works of jurisprudence, legal histories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838044
• ISBN13: 9781843838043
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"