Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

Name: Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
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ISBN: 9780521182263

ISBN-10: 0521182263

ISBN-13: 9780521182263

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christopher W. Brooks

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Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English




English history and the history of English law 1485-1642



Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors



The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome



Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century



The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c.1610



The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority



The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s



The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629-1642



Law and 'community'



The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law



Economic and tenurial relationships



The household and its members



The person, the community and the state



Conclusion