Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation
Selden Society lecture series Australia
English - July 02, 2019 02:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBEducation Science Social Sciences legal heritage selden law judges legal lecture social history legal history law lectures lecture series Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this lecture, Professor Paul Brand looks at the different rhetorics of legislation enacted during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, a period when the initiative in legislation still clearly lay with the King and his advisers (rather than with the Commons in parliament) and also a period which saw the enactment of legislation with a major and continuing impact and importance.
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