The intellectual and cultural world of the early modern Inns of Court / edited by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.

1st edition

81309

Inns of Court -- History -- 16th century.

Inns of Court -- History -- 17th century.

Arts, English -- 16th century.

Arts, English -- 17th century.

England -- Civilization -- 16th century.

England -- Civilization -- 17th century.

1. Third university 1450-1550 : law school or finishing school?

2. Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs : legal iconography at the early modern Inns of Court

3. Gospel, law, and ars praedicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640

4. Inns of Court and the common law mind : the case of James Whitelocke

5. The sinful history of mine own youth : John Donne preaches at Lincoln's Inn

6. Readers' dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court

7. Halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court

8. Professional pride and personal agendas : portaits of judges, lawyers, and members of the Inns of Court, 1560-1630

9. Evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court

10. Rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700

11. Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court : forming a professional community

12. Evidential plot : Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray's Inn

13. Locating the Comedy of errors : revels jurisdiction at the Inns of Court

14. Law sports and the night of errors : Shakespeare at the Inns of Court

15. New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780719082368

xvi, 334 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm