| Description |
1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; 40 |
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<B>Part One: What Were the State Trials? </b><br>Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective -- Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby<br>1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians -- Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor<br>2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials -- Mark Knights<br><b>Part Two: Restoration State Trials</b><br>3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press -- Melinda S. Zook<br>4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket -- John Marshall<br>5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 -- Andrea McKenzie<br>6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials -- Newton Key<br><b>Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials</b><br>7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial -- Scott Sowerby<br>8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 -- Mark Goldie<br>9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 -- Brian Cowan<br>10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials -- Paul Monod<br>11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) -- Annabel Patterson<br><br><br>Index |
| Summary |
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Trials -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Criminal law -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Monarchy -- England -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
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Criminal law
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Justice, Administration of
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Monarchy
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Trials
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Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056789
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England
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cowan, Brian.
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Sowerby, Scott, 1973-
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Goldie, Mark.
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Harris, Tim, 1958-
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Key, Newton.
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Knights, Mark.
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Marshall, John, 1961-
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McKenzie, Andrea, 1960-
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Monod, Paul Kléber.
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Patterson, Annabel
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| ISBN |
1800102747 |
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9781800102743 |
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9781800102736 |
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1800102739 |
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