Wilfrid R. Prest's Books

This biography makes full use of a considerable body of new evidence that has emerged in recent years to shed light on the life, work, and times of William Blackstone, a neglected figure in English and American history. Exploring Blackstone's family upbringing and private life, his legal persona and political activities, his religious outlook and literary output, this book weaves together the threads of an extraordinary mind and career."--BOOK JACKET.

The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's comprehensive study based on original sources surveys the structure and functions of the inns, outlining key aspects, from tensions between junior and senior members to the nature and effectiveness of their educational role. Its lively prose locates the inns within the cultural, political, religious, and social context of Shakespearean and pre-civil war England. This corrected and revised second edition of a classic work addresses recent scholarship on the early modern inns of court and includes a new chapter introducing the book to twenty-first-century readers.

Contains hundreds of well-researched, compact entries on events and movements, institutions and industries as well as longer essays on major themes from Aboriginal-European conflict and Aboriginal histories to more recent concerns of wages and water.

Comprehensive study of the early modern inns of court, based on original sources, now revised and updated with recent scholarship.

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William Blackstone

William Blackstone

The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts

The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts

The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History

The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History

The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts

The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts

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