‘The hard rind of legal history’: F. W. Maitland and the writing of early modern British social history

Robert Houston

‘The hard rind of legal history’: F. W. Maitland and the writing of early modern British social history

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assesses the impact of England's foremost legal historian on the writing of c20 English social history

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Law and Litigants in Early Modern English Society
Subtitle of host publication	Essays in memory of Christopher W. Brooks
Editors	Michael Lobban
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	4
Pages	58-78
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2019

Keywords

historiography
legal history
Social history
Law
Britain

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‘The hard rind of legal history’: F. W. Maitland and the writing of early modern British social history

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