Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England

by Tom Johnson

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes and the making of decisions about local governance. While historians have long studied these institutions, there have been very few attempts to understand this complex institutional form of 'legal pluralism'.

Law in Common provides a way of understanding this complexity by drawing out broader...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198785615
• ISBN13: 9780198785613
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"