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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Blackstone and His Critics by Edited by Dr Anthony Page Edited by Emeritus Professor Wilfrid Prest
This collection focuses on Blackstones critics and detractors. Leading scholars examine the initial reception of the Commentaries in the context of debates over law religion and politics in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Having shown Blackstone’s volumes to be a contested work of the Enlightenment the remaining chapters assess critical responses to Blackstone on family law the status of women and legal education in Britain and America. While Blackstone and his Commentaries have been widely lauded and memorialised in marble this volume highlights the extent to which they have also attracted censure controversy and disparagement.