David Lemmings
Biographic Data
| ID | 1711965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Lemmings |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemmings |
| SIGNATURE | LEMMINGS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1769 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Forum: The Emotional Lives of Constitutional Patriotism
This introduction discusses the interdisciplinary nature of the forum, the history and theory of constitutional patriotism, and the various critiques that have been applied to it. It explains how the essays in the forum advance theories of constitutional patriotism by considering it in particular historical contexts and by examining specific emotions such as love, resentment and sympathy that may be associated with it. It also discusses the metho…
Emotions, Power and Popular Opinion about the Administration of Justice: The English Experience, from Coke’s ‘Artificial Reason’ to the Sensibility of ‘True Crime Stories’
This article discusses emotions and power in the administration and representation of criminal justice in early modern England. In the early seventeenth century, professional lawyers insisted that only they were competent to understand the ‘artificial reason’ of the common law; and lay opinion was associated with unreliable emotional engagement with the protagonists in trials. ‘Popular jurisprudence’ received renewed impetus from the post-Reforma…
Narratives of Feeling and Majesty: Mediated Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Courtroom
This article considers the role of emotion in the eighteenth-century courtroom. It discusses the work of judges and magistrates in constituting and upholding a ‘grand narrative’, which legitimized English criminal law. This grand narrative was inherently emotional, activating patriotism and love of justice, but also fear of punishment through the performance of ‘emotional labour’ from the judgment seat. However, while performing the majesty of th…
Aaron Graham. Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713
Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713 is a model of what careful analysis of intractable manuscripts can contribute to historical research. Aaron Graham has tackled a very technical subject—the financing of the British Army and its allies overseas during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)—and uses it to construct a fresh argument about state formation, a burning topic among historians of the long eighteenth century. G…
Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture
This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ra
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1: Of the Rights of Persons
Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Commentaries on the Laws of England Bk. 1: Rights of Persons
Richard S. Kay. The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law
According to Richard S. Kay, the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 featured an important paradox. The revolution was occasioned to a large extent by James II’s threat to the law and the constitution regarding church and state, and its makers were steeped in the conservative culture of the common law and the ancient constitution. But by supporting the exclusion of James from the throne with military force and constituting a “Convention,” which repl…
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
In 1817, the Sydney Gazette carried a report on the annual “Congress” of the Parramatta Native Institution, established in 1814 by William and Elizabeth Shelley in the western reaches of Sydney, on the east coast of the Australian continent. The Congress was an annual event in which Aboriginal schoolchildren, dressed in white and led by Mrs. Shelley, were paraded around the grounds of the Institution. While the Shelleys had designed the ceremony …
Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, wit
Criminal trial procedure in eighteenth-century England: The impact of lawyers
John Langbein’s work on the English criminal trial, culminating in The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial, has generally transformed our understanding of how the modern Anglo-American ‘lawyerized’ procedure came about. But for a social historian like me, who is interested in the rise and rise of the lawyers and other quasi-ministerial professionals from the sixteenth century, his work also forms a crucial chapter in the long story of professiona…
Visions: 12Th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004
(2005). Visions: 12th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004. History Australia: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-1-19-3
Conferences to Come
Professors of the Law
What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century? In this wide-ranging sequel to Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680–1730, the author not only anatomises the barristers and their world; he also explores the popular reputation and self-image of the law and lawyers in the context of declining popular participation in litigation, increased parliamentary legislation, an…
Practice at the Margins: The Old Bailey and the Colonies
This chapter looks at the origins and growth of a distinctive bar at the Old Bailey. It also shows that the inflation of costs and massive inequality typical of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century meant that the less fortunate barristers had to look elsewhere to establish a practice. It discusses barristers who went further afield to practise law in the long-standing English dominion of Ireland and the developing British Empire in North Am…
Advancement and Independence
Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Lemmings provides a wealth of detail about barrister's numbers, education, working habits, reputation and self-image, and compares them with colonial American lawyers. He suggests that the bar failed English society and therefore the common law
Blackstone and Law Reform by Education: Preparation for the Bar and Lawyerly Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
In his opening lecture at Oxford as Vinerian professor of the laws of England, Dr. William Blackstone introduced his subject with a statement of his “diffidence,” which amounts almost to an apologia for academic study of the law: “He must be sensible how much will depend upon his conduct in the infancy of a study, which is now first adopted by public academical authority; which has generally been reputed (however unjustly) of a dry and unfruitful…
Marriage and the law in the eighteenth century: Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753
This article is an analysis of the hysterical debates in the house of commons over the 1753 Marriage Act, placed in the context of the failure of existing marriage law to prevent clandestine marriage and bigamy, and the crucial importance of the marriage market for the male propertied elite. It shows that the proponents of the act appealed strongly to the patriarchal and material instincts of the majority in the Commons, while its principal oppon…
Lord Chancellor Cowper and the Whigs, 1714–16
The Student Body of the Inns of Court under the Later Stuarts
The Student Body of the Inns of Court under the Later Stuarts Get access David Lemmings David Lemmings Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 58, Issue 138, November 1985, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1985.tb01166.x Published: 12 October 2007
Commentaries on The Laws Of England
Marriage and the law in the eighteenth century: Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753
This article is an analysis of the hysterical debates in the house of commons over the 1753 Marriage Act, placed in the context of the failure of existing marriage law to prevent clandestine marriage and bigamy, and the crucial importance of the marriage market for the male propertied elite. It shows that the proponents of the act appealed strongly to the patriarchal and material instincts of the majority in the Commons, while its principal oppon…
Criminal trial procedure in eighteenth-century England: The impact of lawyers
John Langbein’s work on the English criminal trial, culminating in The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial, has generally transformed our understanding of how the modern Anglo-American ‘lawyerized’ procedure came about. But for a social historian like me, who is interested in the rise and rise of the lawyers and other quasi-ministerial professionals from the sixteenth century, his work also forms a crucial chapter in the long story of professiona…
Blackstone and Law Reform by Education: Preparation for the Bar and Lawyerly Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
In his opening lecture at Oxford as Vinerian professor of the laws of England, Dr. William Blackstone introduced his subject with a statement of his “diffidence,” which amounts almost to an apologia for academic study of the law: “He must be sensible how much will depend upon his conduct in the infancy of a study, which is now first adopted by public academical authority; which has generally been reputed (however unjustly) of a dry and unfruitful…
Commentaries on The Laws Of England
The Student Body of the Inns of Court under the Later Stuarts
The Student Body of the Inns of Court under the Later Stuarts Get access David Lemmings David Lemmings Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 58, Issue 138, November 1985, Pages 149–166, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1985.tb01166.x Published: 12 October 2007
Lord Chancellor Cowper and the Whigs, 1714–16
Marriage and the law in the eighteenth century: Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753
This article is an analysis of the hysterical debates in the house of commons over the 1753 Marriage Act, placed in the context of the failure of existing marriage law to prevent clandestine marriage and bigamy, and the crucial importance of the marriage market for the male propertied elite. It shows that the proponents of the act appealed strongly to the patriarchal and material instincts of the majority in the Commons, while its principal oppon…
Blackstone and Law Reform by Education: Preparation for the Bar and Lawyerly Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
In his opening lecture at Oxford as Vinerian professor of the laws of England, Dr. William Blackstone introduced his subject with a statement of his “diffidence,” which amounts almost to an apologia for academic study of the law: “He must be sensible how much will depend upon his conduct in the infancy of a study, which is now first adopted by public academical authority; which has generally been reputed (however unjustly) of a dry and unfruitful…
Professors of the Law
What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century? In this wide-ranging sequel to Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680–1730, the author not only anatomises the barristers and their world; he also explores the popular reputation and self-image of the law and lawyers in the context of declining popular participation in litigation, increased parliamentary legislation, an…
Practice at the Margins: The Old Bailey and the Colonies
This chapter looks at the origins and growth of a distinctive bar at the Old Bailey. It also shows that the inflation of costs and massive inequality typical of Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century meant that the less fortunate barristers had to look elsewhere to establish a practice. It discusses barristers who went further afield to practise law in the long-standing English dominion of Ireland and the developing British Empire in North Am…
Advancement and Independence
Professors of the Law: Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Lemmings provides a wealth of detail about barrister's numbers, education, working habits, reputation and self-image, and compares them with colonial American lawyers. He suggests that the bar failed English society and therefore the common law
Conferences to Come
Visions: 12Th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004
(2005). Visions: 12th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004. History Australia: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 19-1-19-3
Criminal trial procedure in eighteenth-century England: The impact of lawyers
John Langbein’s work on the English criminal trial, culminating in The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial, has generally transformed our understanding of how the modern Anglo-American ‘lawyerized’ procedure came about. But for a social historian like me, who is interested in the rise and rise of the lawyers and other quasi-ministerial professionals from the sixteenth century, his work also forms a crucial chapter in the long story of professiona…
Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
An exploration of links between opinion and governance in Early Modern England, studying moral panics about crime, sex and belief. Hypothesizing that media-driven panics proliferated in the 1700s, wit
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
In 1817, the Sydney Gazette carried a report on the annual “Congress” of the Parramatta Native Institution, established in 1814 by William and Elizabeth Shelley in the western reaches of Sydney, on the east coast of the Australian continent. The Congress was an annual event in which Aboriginal schoolchildren, dressed in white and led by Mrs. Shelley, were paraded around the grounds of the Institution. While the Shelleys had designed the ceremony …
Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture
This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ra
The Oxford Edition of Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1: Of the Rights of Persons
Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture: Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Commentaries on the Laws of England Bk. 1: Rights of Persons
Richard S. Kay. The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law
According to Richard S. Kay, the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 featured an important paradox. The revolution was occasioned to a large extent by James II’s threat to the law and the constitution regarding church and state, and its makers were steeped in the conservative culture of the common law and the ancient constitution. But by supporting the exclusion of James from the throne with military force and constituting a “Convention,” which repl…
Emotions, Power and Popular Opinion about the Administration of Justice: The English Experience, from Coke’s ‘Artificial Reason’ to the Sensibility of ‘True Crime Stories’
This article discusses emotions and power in the administration and representation of criminal justice in early modern England. In the early seventeenth century, professional lawyers insisted that only they were competent to understand the ‘artificial reason’ of the common law; and lay opinion was associated with unreliable emotional engagement with the protagonists in trials. ‘Popular jurisprudence’ received renewed impetus from the post-Reforma…
Narratives of Feeling and Majesty: Mediated Emotions in the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Courtroom
This article considers the role of emotion in the eighteenth-century courtroom. It discusses the work of judges and magistrates in constituting and upholding a ‘grand narrative’, which legitimized English criminal law. This grand narrative was inherently emotional, activating patriotism and love of justice, but also fear of punishment through the performance of ‘emotional labour’ from the judgment seat. However, while performing the majesty of th…
Aaron Graham. Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713
Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713 is a model of what careful analysis of intractable manuscripts can contribute to historical research. Aaron Graham has tackled a very technical subject—the financing of the British Army and its allies overseas during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)—and uses it to construct a fresh argument about state formation, a burning topic among historians of the long eighteenth century. G…
Introduction to Interdisciplinary Forum: The Emotional Lives of Constitutional Patriotism
This introduction discusses the interdisciplinary nature of the forum, the history and theory of constitutional patriotism, and the various critiques that have been applied to it. It explains how the essays in the forum advance theories of constitutional patriotism by considering it in particular historical contexts and by examining specific emotions such as love, resentment and sympathy that may be associated with it. It also discusses the metho…
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