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Law, Law-Consciousness and Lawyers as Constitutive of Early Modern England: Christopher W. Brooks’s Singular Journey

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Publication date30/06/2019
Host publicationLaw, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks
EditorsMichael Lobban, Joanne Begiato, Adrian Green
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages32-57
Number of pages25
ISBN (print)9781108491723
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

During the last half-century, Christopher W. Brooks (1948–2014) established
himself as the foremost historian of law in early modern English
society. Through his scholarship, his teaching, and the generations of
students he advised and supervised, and as a friend and colleague, Brooks
exercised, from the early 1990s onwards, an increasingly significant influence
on writing about early modern English history. He was the leading
exponent of a history of earlymodern England that transcended the boundaries
of social, political and legal history, and which placed law and lawyers
centre stage. In doing so, he challenged major premises of the dominant
vision of law-in-history in writing about English history. This chapter brings
a critical, if friendly, eye to Brooks’s work, focusing on how Brooks beat his
own path through the methodological thickets to create a distinctive vision
of law in history, and on the strengths and weaknesses of that vision.

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This material has been published in Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England. Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks edited by Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato and Adrian Green https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/legal-history/law-lawyers-and-litigants-early-modern-england-essays-memory-christopher-w-brooks?format=HB. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © Cambridge University Press 2019