Courtroom and Schoolroom: The Education of Lawyers in England Prior to 1400
- Author / Editor
- Brand, Ralph.
Courtroom and Schoolroom: The Education of Lawyers in England Prior to 1400
- Published
- Historical Research: The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 60 (1987): 147-65.
- Description
- The Inns of Court did not serve as places of legal instruction before the fifteenth century. Evidence from legal manuscripts suggests that such instruction was handled not only through attendance at court but also by means of lectures, annotated yearbooks, questions put to experienced lawyers, and even attendance at Oxford (and possibly Cambridge). Cf. Joseph Allen Hornsby, "Chaucer and the Law" (SAC 12 (1990), no.85), and "Was Chaucer Educated at the Inns of Court?" (SAC 12 (1990), no.8).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.