7: Social Change and the Law
The law was important in both the social and political life of early seventeenth-century England. The pressures of social and economic change also put the lawyers in the position of arbitrating between the values of an old and of a new form of society
ERIC IVES
Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool discusses the role of the lawyers as agents of change, their participation in a changing society, and their connections with Puritanism, commercial expansion, and constitutional opposition
With readings from contemporary sources by GARY WATSON and John GLEN
Produced by Adrian Johnson
Second broadcast
Peter Laslett on Social Conflict in early Stuart England: Wed... 6.30