| Description |
1 online resource (470 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Examines legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the middle of the seventeenth century |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Law -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Law
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England
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511757167 |
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0511757166 |
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