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- Title
Village Voice or Village Oligarchy?: The Jurors of the Durham Halmote Court, 1349 to 1424.
- Authors
LARSON, PETER L.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the medieval history of Durham, a county in England, focusing on the regulation of many aspects of rural life by the county's halmote court. The county's rural jurors were drawn from the population of local tenants, and the article investigates the question of whether they were truly representative of the county's residents, or constituted an elite group comparable to a village oligarchy. An analysis of the records of the court for the 14th and early 15th centuries is presented, and it is demonstrated that the juries were typically dominated by small groups of long-serving individuals.
- Subjects
DURHAM (England : County); ENGLAND; JURORS; MEDIEVAL law; JURY selection; ELITE (Social sciences); LOCAL history
- Publication
Law & History Review, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 3, p675
- ISSN
0738-2480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S073824801000060X