Table of Contents

Litigants and attorneys in King's Bench and common pleas, 1590-1640; interpersonal conflict and social tension - civil litigation in England, 1640-1830; litigation, state and society in England, 1200-1990; the decline and re-creation of the English legal profession in the 18th and 19th centuries; apprenticeship and legal education in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries; law, lawyers and the social history of England, 1500-1850; the place of Magna Carta and the "ancient constitution" in 16th-century English legal thought; courts, legal discourse, and political consciousness in early 17th-century England.