Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700 The trial in history, volume I

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the thirteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Chapters consider the judges and juries and the amateur and professional advisers involved in legal processes as well as the offenders brought before the courts, with the reasons for prosecuting them and the defenses they put forward. The cases examined range from a fourteenth century cause-celebre, the attempted trial of Pope Boniface VIII for heresy, to investigations of obscure people for sexual and religious offenses in the city states of Geneva and Venice. Technical terms have been cut to a minimum to ensure accessibility and appeal to lawyers, social, political, and legal historians, undergraduate and postgraduates as well as general readers interested in the development of the trial through time.

Maureen Mulholland is now Honorary Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester following her recent retirement.Brian Pullan is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Manchester.

"A number of excellent, first-rate contributions have been assembled for this volume." - Dr Paul Brand, All Souls College, Oxford