Description |
1 online resource (xii, 456 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-442) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
Examines legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the middle of the seventeenth century. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Law -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Law. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
16th century |
Subject |
Law -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Chronological Term |
17th century |
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1500-1699 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Subject |
Law. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Brooks, C.W. Law, politics and society in early modern England. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521323918 (DLC) 2008036971 (OCoLC)231580873 |
ISBN |
9780511757303 (electronic book) |
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0511757301 (electronic book) |
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0511756887 |
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9780511756887 |
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9780511757372 (electronic book) |
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0511757379 (electronic book) |
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9780521323918 (hardback) |
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0521323916 |
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