
Priests of the Law
Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals
Hardcover | 28 November 2019
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The judges who wrote Bracton - Martin of Pattishall, William of Raleigh, and Henry of Bratton - were some of the first people to work full-time in England's royal courts, at a time when there was no recourse to an obvious model for the legal professional. They found one in an unexpected place: they sought to clothe themselves in the authority and prestige of the scholarly Roman-law tradition that was sweeping across Europe in the thirteenth century, modelling themselves on the jurists of Roman law who were teaching in European universities. In Bracton and other texts they produced, the justices of the royal courts worked hard to ensure that the nascent common-law tradition grew from Roman Law. Through their writing, this small group of people, working in the courts of an island realm, imagined themselves to be part of a broader European legal culture. They made the case that they were not merely servants of the king: they were priests of the law.
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The author offers a new interpretation of Henri Bracton and his fellow judges Martin of Pattishall and William of Raleigh, suggesting that their treatise (known as Bracton) was less an effort to restate or reform the Common Law than an undertaking to reinforce the status and authority of the judge. * Jus Gentium: Journal of International Legal History *
ISBN: 9780198845454
ISBN-10: 0198845456
Series: Oxford Legal History
Published: 28th November 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Oxford University Press UK
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 16.3 x 24.2 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.64
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