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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2012
- Book Title
- English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages: Cloistered Nuns a...
- ISBN
- 9781843837862
- Subject Area
- Law, Religion, History
- Publication Name
- English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages : Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Monasticism, Christianity / Catholic, Legal History, Europe / Medieval
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Series
- Issn Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 14.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 218 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
ISBN-10
1843837862
ISBN-13
9781843837862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114205766
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
218 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages : Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Monasticism, Christianity / Catholic, Legal History, Europe / Medieval
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Religion, History
Series
Issn Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-474338
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A learned, useful, and often engaging study of the legal business of these female houses. Overall the book is gracefully written, thoroughly documented, and well disciplined. Its scrupulous organization makes it easy to navigate if one is looking for specific information; it is also an admirable work of sustained and mature scholarship. MEDIEVAL PROSOPOGRAPHY This carefully researched book deserves a wide readership. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW A meticulously researched and precisely written study. ... An engaging and useful book. PARERGON Provides a valuable treatment of this neglected, and richly documented, dimension of monastic life. ... [It] will be welcomed by ecclesiastical and legal historians alike. THE RICARDIAN An elegant and masterful study of a little known aspect of the history of nuns in later medieval England. HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS
Series Volume Number
39
Volume Number
Vol. 39
Dewey Decimal
271.900420902
Table Of Content
Introduction Cloistered Spirituality and English Nuns Legal Professionalism and English Lawyers Letters of Appointment and Routine Business Proceedings at Common Law Chancery Suits Episcopal Arbitration Papal Appeals Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
Synopsis
Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted., Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted. In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other "men of law" who actuallyconducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been fully investigated. This book aims to address the gap. Using records from the courts of the common law, Chancery, and a variety of ecclesiastical venues, it examines the working relationships withoutwhich cloistered nuns could not have lived in fully enclosed but self-sustainingc communities. In the first part it looks at the six mendicant and Bridgettine houses established in England, and relates the effectiveness and resilience of their cloistered spirituality to the rise of legal professionalism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It then presents cases from ecclesiastical and royal courts which illustrate the work of legal professionals on behalf of their clients. Elizabeth Makowski is Ingram Professor of History, Texas State University., In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They did so using attorneys (proctors), advocates and other "men of law" who actually conducted that litigation in the courts of Church and Crown. However, although lawyers were as crucial to the economic vitality of the nunneries as the patrons who endowed them, their role in protecting, augmenting or depleting monastic assets has never been fully investigated. This book aims to address the gap. Using records from the courts of the common law, Chancery, and a variety of ecclesiastical venues, it examines the working relationships without which cloistered nuns could not have lived in fully enclosed but self-sustainingc communities. In the first part it looks at the six mendicant and Bridgettine houses established in England, and relates the effectiveness and resilience of their cloistered spirituality to the rise of legal professionalism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It then presents cases from ecclesiastical and royal courts which illustrate the work of legal professionals on behalf of their clients. Elizabeth Makowski is Ingram Professor of History, Texas State University.
LC Classification Number
BX4220
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