The law emprynted and Englysshed : the printing press as an agent of change in law and legal culture 1475-1642 / David J. Harvey.
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Title
The law emprynted and Englysshed : the printing press as an agent of change in law and legal culture 1475-1642 / David J. Harvey.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2015.
Call Number
KD610 .H37 2015
ISBN
9781849466684 (hbk.)
1849466688 (hbk.)
1849466688 (hbk.)
Description
xv, 308 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)896907533
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-299) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
v
Abbreviations
xiii
Table of Cases
xvii
1.
Introduction
1
I.
The Argument
3
II.
Eisenstein's Theory
3
III.
Eisenstein's Critics
8
IV.
The Outline
11
V.
A Note on Quotation Conventions
15
2.
Regulating the Printing Press -- How the Law Struggled to Cope With a New Communications Technology
16
I.
Introduction
16
II.
The Content Control Model: The Constitutions of Oxford 1407 and The Stationers Guild
18
A.
The Early Stationers
19
B.
Further Statutory Activity
21
III.
Early Printing Industry Control
22
A.
Industry Control Measures
26
B.
Content Control Measures
28
I.
The 1520s -- The Revival of the Constitutions of Oxford
28
IV.
Printing and Proclamations
32
A.
Henry VIII's Use of Proclamations
33
B.
Industry Regulation and Proclamations
34
C.
Content and Proclamations
35
D.
Proclamations in the Reigns of Edward VI and Mary
38
E.
The Elizabethan Use of Proclamations
39
F.
Proclamations as a Regulatory Tool -- Some Observations
41
V.
The Royal Printer, Patents and the Stationers Company
42
A.
The Royal Printer
42
B.
Patents
44
C.
The Stationers Company and Print Regulation
47
VI.
The Star Chamber Decrees
51
A.
The 1586 Star Chamber Decrees
53
B.
Attempts at Statutory Regulation
57
C.
After 1586
59
D.
The Effectiveness of the 1586 Decrees
60
E.
Prelude to the 1637 Star Chamber Decrees
61
F.
The Star Chamber Decrees 1637
64
VII.
Conclusion
67
3.
Lawyers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- A Readership for Law Printing
69
I.
Introduction
69
II.
The Legal Profession
70
A.
The Lower Branch
71
B.
The Market for Law Books
73
III.
Legal Education in the Inns
75
A.
Entry to the Inns
76
B.
The Structure of the Inns and Legal Education
76
I.
Moots
78
II.
Readings
79
III.
Changes in Learning
82
IV.
Law Books and Study Methods
84
V.
Conclusion
89
4.
Putting the Law into Print
91
I.
Introduction
91
II.
The Business of Law Printing
92
A.
The Contest for Quality
94
B.
The Role of Richard Tottel
96
C.
Lawyers and Printers
98
D.
Tottel's Contribution
101
E.
Tottel's Heirs
104
III.
Humanism and the Law
107
A.
The `Common Weal'
113
B.
Print, Dissemination and `Englysshing' the Law
116
C.
Ignorance of the Law
118
IV.
Print, Legislation and Dissemination of the Law
122
V.
The Coexistence of Print and Manuscript
125
A.
Introduction
125
B.
General Attitudes
125
C.
The Contest Between Print and Manuscript
126
D.
The Economics and Advantages of Manuscript Publication
128
E.
The Development of Law Texts
129
F.
Libraries and Law Books
130
G.
Print -- Advantages and Drawbacks
131
H.
Legal Information and Nos Erudition
135
I.
Coterie Publication -- Sharing Information Within Groups or Communities
139
VI.
Conclusion
141
5.
Printing the Law -- The Sixteenth-Century Phase
143
I.
Introduction
143
II.
Year Book Printing
146
A.
Trends in Year Book Printing
147
III.
Year Book Abridgements
152
IV.
Statutes and Abridgements
157
V.
Some Observations
159
VI.
Plowden's Commentaries
160
VII.
Print and Manuscript
163
VIII.
Other Law Publications
168
IX.
Conclusion
169
6.
Law Printing in the Seventeenth Century -- Treatises and Other Texts
171
I.
Introduction
171
II.
Law Texts -- A General Discussion
172
III.
The Increase in Law Texts
175
IV.
Types of Law Texts
176
V.
Themes in the Law Texts
180
A.
Self-Validation of Texts by Texts
181
B.
The Language of the Law
186
C.
From Mnemonic to `Preserved' Memory
192
i.
Mnemonic Devices
193
D.
Textualisation, Print and Hermeneutics
196
i.
Did Print Enhance Hermeneutics?
201
E.
Ordering the Law
202
F.
Opportunistic Printing
207
G.
Guidebooks and Manuals
210
H.
The Markets for Law Texts
217
VI.
Concluding the Themes
219
VII.
Sir Edward Coke
220
VIII.
Printing the Law in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Concluding Observations
234
7.
Conclusion
240
I.
Introduction
240
II.
Eisenstein's Theory -- A Validation?
241
III.
Regulatory Structures
242
IV.
The Business of Law Printing
244
V.
Other Influences on Law Printing
247
VI.
Cultural Frictions and Coteries
247
VII.
Law Texts and Law Printing -- the Sixteenth Century
249
VIII.
The Transition to Seventeenth-Century Law Printing
250
IX.
The Role of the Lawyers
251
X.
Seventeenth-Century Developments
252
XI.
To Conclude
253
Appendix 1
Star Chamber Decrees 1586 Transcription
255
Appendix 2
Star Chamber Decrees 1637 Transcription
261
Bibliography
273
Index
301