The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court

by Sarah Knight

Book Overview

This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries.

This period witnessed the height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719090091
• ISBN13: 9780719090097
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"