The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton C.1176-1239This book presents a study of the evolution of a professional judiciary in medieval England through the careers of forty nine royal justices from the last decade of Henry II until 1239. Those years were crucial for the growth of the common law, producing the two legal treatises Glanvill and Bracton. The period also represents a critical phase in the growth of a professional civil service for England. Professor Turner's study plots the shifts from