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Author Brooks, C. W.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 456 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Law -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Law.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Law -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
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)
0511757301 (electronic book)
0511756887
9780511756887
9780511757372 (electronic book)
0511757379 (electronic book)
9780521323918 (hardback)
0521323916