Behind the Castle Gate databases and their constitutional responsibility to

and their constitutional responsibility to identify and articulate the 'living' and 'evolving' common law

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Seth Lazar develops new insights into the morality of harm

Behind the Castle Gate databases and their constitutional responsibility toIn this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as