Christopher W. Brooks, C. W. Brooks

Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the middle of the seventeenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780521182263
• ISBN-10: 0521182263
• Artikelnr.: 33114069

Inhaltsangabe

1. English history and the history of English law 1485-1642
2. Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors
3. The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome
4. Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century
5. The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c.1610
6. The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority
7. The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s
8. The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629-1642
9. Law and 'community'
10. The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law
11. Economic and tenurial relationships
12. The household and its members
13. The person, the community and the state
14. Conclusion.