TY - BOOK AU - Brooks,C.W. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Law, politics and society in early modern England AV - KD612 .B76 2008 U1 - 349.42 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Law KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=534753 ER -