English Law and the Renaissance / The Rede Lecture for 1901

by Frederic William Maitland

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NOTES.

Sir R. Rede’s lectures.

[1] Robert Rede was Autumn Reader at Lincoln’s Inn in 1481, Lent Reader in 1485: Black Book of Lincoln’s Inn, vol. 1., pp. 71, 83.

[2] Creighton, The Early Renaissance in England, Camb. 1895.

[3] Coke, Introductory Letter to Part 10 of the Reports, and Preface to First Institute.

English law and the Renaissance.

[4] Sohm, Fränkisches Recht und römisches Recht, 1880, p. 77: ‘… Thatsachen in Folge deren die Renaissance an dem englischen Rechtsleben so gut wie spurlos vorüberging.’