Publisher's Synopsis
"Law and Society in England" is a major new text on legal history, covering in detail the complexities of two centuries of intense social and legal change.;In this original work, the authors have examined the complex interaction between ideology, social change and the law. Bringing together a vast body of research and contemporary source material, they investigate the manner in which the legislative process responded to the growing demands for regulation and reform in a fast-changing society, and examine the extent to which the law reflected those shifting attitudes.
