{"product_id":"9781614871774","title":"The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I: In Two Volumes","description":"First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe History of English Law before the Time of Edward I \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eexpanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them the development of individual rights as these were gradually carved out from the authority of the Crown and the Church. Although it has been more than a century since its initial publication, Pollock and Maitland's work is still considered an accessible and useful foundational reference for scholars of medieval English law.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume one begins with an examination of Anglo-Saxon law, goes on to consider the changes in law introduced by the Normans, then moves to the twelfth-century \"Age of Glanvill,\" with the first great compilation of English laws and customs, followed by the thirteenth-century \"Age of Bracton,\" author of another major treatise on the same subject. Volume two takes up different areas of English law topic by topic, or as its authors labeled it, \"The Doctrines of English Law in the Early Middle Ages.\" They consider land tenure, marriage and wardship, fealty, the ranks of men both free and unfree, aliens, Jews, excommunicates, women, and the churches and the King, before turning to the various jurisdictions of that decentralized era.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe History of English law before the Time of Edward I \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ehelps readers explore the origins of English legal exceptionalism and through the English tradition the basis of the law of America, Canada, Australia, and other nations. This work is of interest to legal scholars, historians of the Middle Ages, political scientists, political philosophers, and all those interested in Anglo-Saxon law and early law and society.\u003cstrong\u003eSir Frederick Pollock \u003c\/strong\u003e(1845–1937) was educated at Eton before going to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the bar in 1871 and to the Privy Council in 1911. He taught at the University of Oxford from 1883 to 1903. Pollock wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Law of Torts \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Principles of Contract\u003c\/em\u003e and served as editor of the \u003cem\u003eLaw Quarterly Review \u003c\/em\u003eand editor-in-chief of the \u003cem\u003eLaw Reports\u003c\/em\u003e, the volumes in which decisions of the English courts were published. Later he was made a judge of the admiralty court of the Cinque Ports.\u003cstrong\u003eFrederic William Maitland \u003c\/strong\u003e(1850–1906) was an English jurist and historian who, like Pollock, attended Eton and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Maitland began publishing legal history in 1884 and four years later he was elected to the Downing Chair of the Laws of England. He founded the Selden Society in 1886 and served as its general editor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166952866032,"sku":"9781614871774","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614871774_p0.jpg?v=1763848404","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614871774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}