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Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England.
Examines legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the middle of the seventeenth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and conventions; 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 1620s8 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; Manuscript bibliography; Index.