num_pages: 259
description: Reprint of the 1829 London edition. Published in 1600, Fulbeck s Direction orPreparative was intended as a vade mecum for aspiring law students.The first book of its kind, it offers a mix of practical informationand advice on personal conduct. (For example, he advises students notto study at night "for when the stomach is full and stuffed with meat,the abundance of humours is carried to the head, where it sticketh fora time and layeth as it were a lump of lead upon the brain.") For themost part Fulbeck restricts his thoughts to rhetorical techniques,methods for preparing a case, recommended readings and other topics.Though often read for amusement, this treatise remains an incomparableguide to English legal education and the legal culture of the Inns ofCourt during the Elizabethan era.
language: English
title: Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law; Wherein Is Shewed, What Things Ought to Be Observed and Used of Them That Are Addicted to the Study
titlecomplete: Direction or Preparative to the Study of the Law; Wherein Is Shewed, What Things Ought to Be Observed and Used of Them That Are Addicted to the Study
publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.