The intellectual and cultural world of the early modern Inns of Court
By: edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780719082368
Subjects: Inns of Court; English Arts; Civilization; History
Description: This text presents an interdisciplinary 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 15th through the early 18th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: The third university 1450-1550 : law school or finishing school? / J.H. Baker; title: Introduction : education, religion, politics, and the law at the early modern Inns of Court / Jayne Elisabeth Archer; title: The Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs : legal iconography at the early modern Inns of Court / Paul Raffield; title: Gospel, law, and ars praedicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640 / Hugh Adlington; title: The Inns of Court and the common law mind : the case of James Whitelocke / Damian X. Powell; title: "The sinful history of mine own youth" : John Donne preaches at Lincoln's Inn / Emma Rhatigan; title: Readers' dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court / Wilfred R. Prest; title: Introduction : the art, architecture, and gardens of the early modern Inns of Court / Elizabeth Goldring; title: The halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court / Mark Girouard; title: Professional pride and personal agendas : portaits of judges, lawyers, and members of the Inns of Court, 1560-1630 / Tarnya Cooper; title: The evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court / Paula Henderson; title: The rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700 / Geoffrey Tyack; title: Introduction : literature and drama at the early modern Inns of Court / Sarah Knight; title: Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court : forming a professional community / Jessica Winston; title: The evidential plot : Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray's Inn / Lorna Hutson; title: Locating the Comedy of errors : revels jurisdiction at the Inns of Court / Bradin Cormack; title: Law sports and the night of errors : Shakespeare at the Inns of Court / Richard C. McCoy; title: New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642 / Alan H. Nelson.