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  • 14 - Glanvill:

  • from Part II - Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
  • Edited by Julie Barrau, University of Cambridge, David Bates, University of East Anglia
  • Book:
    Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
    Published online:
    24 September 2021
    Print publication:
    07 October 2021, pp 264-281

  • Summary

    The chapter concentrates on the intellectual and social identity of the author of the late twelfth-century English law book known as Glanvill, by examining his context, formation and outlook. The method is twofold: first, close engagement with the text, not just what it says, but also how it says it, not just content, but also form and language; secondly, comparison, especially with Richard fitzNigel’s Dialogue of the Exchequer, but also with works from the learned law tradition, in particular the procedural manuals known as Ordines. The chapter explores the processes of composition of the treatise; the significance of its form and style as a means of establishing authority; the ways in which the author identifies with particular courts and particular sources of law; the standing given by specialist knowledge and legal authority; and finally the possible audiences, imagined and real.

  • 44 - Law books

  • from III - SPECIALIST BOOKS AND MARKETS
  • Edited by Michael F. Suarez, SJ, University of Virginia, Michael L. Turner, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    29 October 2009, pp 791-806

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on the vocational literature produced mainly for and by common lawyers, together with books on or about the law marketed to a lay audience. Criminal biography and accounts of criminal trials almost certainly constituted the largest body of law-related literature circulating in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England. Law books were mostly written by lawyers, whose title page identification as such helped establish the authority and credibility of their books. Legal authorship, especially law reporting and treatise writing, was a recognized career option for younger barristers by the end of our period. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw massive increases in the volume of parliamentary transactions committed to print and major changes in the organization of that printing. While English law was increasingly shaped by parliamentary statute during the same period, the chapter presents a brief sketch of these complex developments.