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

by Sebastian Sobecki and Sebastian I. Sobecki

In Unwritten Verities: The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549, Sebastian Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor monarchs, the scriptural literalism of ardent Protestants,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041458
• ISBN13: 9780268041458
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"