Ranulf de Glanvill - Wikipedia Ranulf de Glanvill (alias Glanvil, Glanville, Granville, etc , died 1190) was Chief Justiciar of England during the reign of King Henry II (1154–89) and was the probable author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England), the earliest treatise on the laws of England
Ranulf de Glanville | Legal Scholar, Justiciar Magna Carta - Britannica As justiciar, Glanville was, in effect, viceroy of England while Henry II was fighting in France During his tenure a permanent royal court (Curia Regis) began to sit at Westminster, and the inquest (a forerunner of the jury trial) came to be widely used in cases involving land
A Translation of Glanville | Project Gutenberg The illustrious Ranulph de Glanville, who of all in that age was the most skilled in the Laws of the Realm, and the ancient Customs thereof, then holding the helm of Justice
AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSEPH GLANVILL. Glanvill was a foremost combatant in the struggle He came forward as the advocate of Freethought and experimental Science, the uncompromising foe of Aristotelianism, the enthusiastic disciple of Bacon and Descartes
Ranulf De Glanvill | Encyclopedia. com As chief justiciar, Glanvill sought to extend the benefits of the king's courts to ordinary people He accomplished this through a system of itinerant royal justices, and the results revolutionized English legal procedure
Joseph Glanvill - Wikipedia Joseph Glanvill Joseph Glanvill FRS (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century [1]
Joseph Glanvill - Oxford Reference (1636–80) English philosopher An Oxford-educated proponent of the Royal Society, Glanvill is principally remembered for The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661; the work contains the story that inspired Matthew Arnold's poem, ‘The Scholar Gipsy’)