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Inns of Court
Excerpt from Inns of Court: An Historical Description of the Inns of Court and Chancery of England One can step aside from busy, modern Fleet Street, the famous journalistic centre of London, and in a minute he in the midst of stately mediaeval buildings, spacious lawns and flower gardens, and sombre old quadrangles having all the appearances of a university town in the middle ages. This is the Temple where are situated two of the four ancient Inns of Court, Middle Temple, and Inner Temple. These Inns of Court with the two others, Lincoln's Inn in Chancery Lane, and Gray's Inn in Holborn, are voluntary non-corporation legal societies seated in London, having their origin some time about the...
The Inns of Court
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The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts
The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's comprehensive study based on original sources surveys the structure and functions of the inns, outlining key aspects, from tensions between junior and senior members to the nature and effectiveness of their educational role. Its lively prose locates the inns within the cultural, political, religious, and social context of Shakespearean and pre-civil war England. This corrected and revised second edition of a classic work addresses recent scholarship on the early modern inns of court and includes a new chapter introducing the book to twenty-first-century readers.
