Historiographical Approach

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In English Law in the Age of the Black Death, I asserted that the demographic catastrophe produced by the Black Death occasioned a governmental response that transformed English governance and law. One area not investigated in that book was the legal profession. The impact of the Black Death on the legal profession is important, because one might argue different dynamics in the general transformation depending on whether lawyers survived relatively well or poorly, although extremely different arguments could be made in either case. This article fills that gap.



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