Law, politics and society in early modern England [electronic resource] / Christopher W. Brooks.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xii, 456 pSubject(s): Law -- England -- History -- 16th century | Law -- England -- History -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 349.42 LOC classification: KD612 | .B76 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. 433-442) and index.
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.
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