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

Contributor(s): Archer, Jayne Elisabeth | Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970- | Knight, Sarah, 1975-Publication details: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Description: xvi, 334 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780719082368 (hardback); 0719082366 (hardback)Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 340.06042 LOC classification: KD502. | I58 2011Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents only
Contents:
The third university 1450-1550 : law school or finishing school? / J.H. Baker -- Introduction : education, religion, politics, and the law at the early modern Inns of Court / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- The Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs : legal iconography at the early modern Inns of Court / Paul Raffield -- Gospel, law, and ars praedicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640 / Hugh Adlington -- The Inns of Court and the common law mind : the case of James Whitelocke / Damian X. Powell -- "The sinful history of mine own youth" : John Donne preaches at Lincoln's Inn / Emma Rhatigan -- Readers' dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court / Wilfred R. Prest -- Introduction : the art, architecture, and gardens of the early modern Inns of Court / Elizabeth Goldring -- The halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court / Mark Girouard -- Professional pride and personal agendas : portaits of judges, lawyers, and members of the Inns of Court, 1560-1630 / Tarnya Cooper -- The evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court / Paula Henderson -- The rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700 / Geoffrey Tyack -- Introduction : literature and drama at the early modern Inns of Court / Sarah Knight -- Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court : forming a professional community / Jessica Winston -- The evidential plot : Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray's Inn / Lorna Hutson -- Locating the Comedy of errors : revels jurisdiction at the Inns of Court / Bradin Cormack -- Law sports and the night of errors : Shakespeare at the Inns of Court / Richard C. McCoy -- New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642 / Alan H. Nelson.
Summary: This text presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late 15th through the early 18th centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index.

The third university 1450-1550 : law school or finishing school? / J.H. Baker -- Introduction : education, religion, politics, and the law at the early modern Inns of Court / Jayne Elisabeth Archer -- The Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs : legal iconography at the early modern Inns of Court / Paul Raffield -- Gospel, law, and ars praedicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640 / Hugh Adlington -- The Inns of Court and the common law mind : the case of James Whitelocke / Damian X. Powell -- "The sinful history of mine own youth" : John Donne preaches at Lincoln's Inn / Emma Rhatigan -- Readers' dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court / Wilfred R. Prest -- Introduction : the art, architecture, and gardens of the early modern Inns of Court / Elizabeth Goldring -- The halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court / Mark Girouard -- Professional pride and personal agendas : portaits of judges, lawyers, and members of the Inns of Court, 1560-1630 / Tarnya Cooper -- The evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court / Paula Henderson -- The rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700 / Geoffrey Tyack -- Introduction : literature and drama at the early modern Inns of Court / Sarah Knight -- Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court : forming a professional community / Jessica Winston -- The evidential plot : Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray's Inn / Lorna Hutson -- Locating the Comedy of errors : revels jurisdiction at the Inns of Court / Bradin Cormack -- Law sports and the night of errors : Shakespeare at the Inns of Court / Richard C. McCoy -- New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642 / Alan H. Nelson.

This text presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late 15th through the early 18th centuries.