Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation / Paul Brand.

Brisbane : Supreme Court Library Queensland 2019

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In this lecture, Professor Paul Brand looks at the different rhetorics of legislation enacted during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, a period when the initiative in legislation still clearly lay with the King and his advisers (rather than with the Commons in parliament) and also a period which saw the enactment of legislation with a major and continuing impact and importance.

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Professor Paul Brand, 'Rhetoric and reality: the making of English medieval legislation', 2019 Selden Society Lecture 1 given at the Banco Court, Brisbane, 23 May 2019

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