Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-284) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Eating, learning and revering the law: oral traditions and the religious inheritance -- Architecture and heraldry: bodies of law, myth and honour -- Revels, feasting and role-playing: dreamland, drunkenness and the Utopian state -- The theatre of law: dramatic symbols of crown, common law and the ancient constitution -- Reformation, regulation and the image: the English state and the subject of law -- Common lawyers, fundamental law and the idolatrous mask of Charles I -- Interregnum: Lex, ius and de facto government.
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