The Rise of the Barristers

A Social History of the English Bar 1590-1640

By: Wilfrid R. Prest

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Hardcover | 1 April 1997

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460 Pages

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The barristers were the most powerful and prosperous professional group in early modern England. This book systematically examines the barrister's working life during a half-century of rapid growth and structural change within the legal profession. Prest analyzes patterns of professional recruitment, training, and mobility and explores the participation of barristers in the cultural, religious, and political life of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This is the first book to be published in the Oxford Studies in Social History, under the general editorship of Keith Thomas. The series, which will cover all periods and parts of the world, will include original works of scholarship on a broad range of subjects of interest to historians as well as to scholars working in related fields.

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`The Rise of the Barristers is an innovative and fundamental contribution to the history of the legal profession and it becomes the new base for future enquiry' Times Literary Supplement `Prest possesses imagination as well as erudition, and is anxious to consider the impact of barristers on the wider society.' The English Historical Review ` There is but little in this book with which to find fault; on the contrary it is excellently researched and well presented.' Journal of Legal HIstory `It is very much a professional's book, searching in its questions, accountable in its methodology, and scrupulous with regard to its conclusions.' Historical Studies `a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the legal profession in England in the early modern period' Paul A. Brand, American Journal of Legal History `Dr. Prest's prose is a constant revelation. Within the last few years there have been published a number of distinguished scholarly volumes on the history of the English legal profession. Dr. Prest's new volume is another notable accretion to this excellent collection.' W.N. Osborough, The Irish Jurist, Volume XXIII, 1988

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