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English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages: Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540
Elizabeth Makowski
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Hardback.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837862
SKU
V9781843837862
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Reviews for English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages: Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540
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 ... Read more
MEDIEVAL PROSOPOGRAPHY
This carefully researched book ... Read more