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.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38408363*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
