Law, politics and society in early modern England / Christopher W. Brooks.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 456 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.