Paul Raffield, Raffield Paul

Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England

Justice and Political Power, 1558 1660

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interesting interpretation of the arcane world of the early modern legal community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521044530
• ISBN-10: 0521044537
• Artikelnr.: 23105016

Autorenporträt

Paul Raffield is Tutor in Constitutional Law and a guest lecturer in legal history, law and literature, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Eating, learning and revering the law: oral traditions and the religious inheritance
2. Architecture and heraldry: bodies of law, myth and honour
3. Revels, feasting and role-playing: dreamland, drunkenness and the Utopian state
4. The theatre of law: dramatic symbols of crown, common law and the Ancient Constitution
5. Reformation, regulation and the image: the English state and the subject of law
6. Common lawyers, fundamental law and the idolatrous mask of Charles I
7. Interregnum: lex, ius and de facto government
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.