EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

Download or read book The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England written by Brian Cowan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial' emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.tury, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.tury, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.tury, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.

Book Canadian State Trials  Volume I

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Murray Greenwood
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1996-12-15
  • ISBN : 1487597908
  • Pages : 664 pages

Download or read book Canadian State Trials Volume I written by Frank Murray Greenwood and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ]State trials reveal much about a nation's insecurities and shed light on important themes in political, constitutional, and legal history. In Canada, perceived and real threats to the state have ranged from dissent, disaffection, and the emergence of threatening ideologies to insurrection, riot, violent protest, and military invasion. The Canadian State Trials series will explore the role of the law in regulating such threats, from the period of early European settlement to 1971. The first volume and the planned series as a whole present a great deal of new material by prominent Canadian historians and legal scholars. Although certain Canadian political trials and security crises have received scholarly attention in the past, there has never been a comprehensive and systematic examination of the country's surprisingly rich record in this area. The eighteen essays in Volume I examine this record for the period 1608-1837, covering proceedings in New France, the four Atlantic colonies, the Old Province of Quebec, and the two Canadas. They highlight security law during the American revolution, the wars against revolutionary/Napoleonic France, and the War of 1812; comparative treason law; and the trials of David McLane, Robert Gourlay, Francis Collins, and Joseph Howe, among others. The essays, which extensive use of primary sources (the most illuminating of which appear in a documentary appendix), place the examination of the law and its administration during these events in socio-political and comparative context.

Book Mary Carleton

Download or read book Mary Carleton written by Mihoko Suzuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Carleton, commonly known as the German Princess, was a scandalous celebrity in Restoration London. Her notoriety arose from her 1663 trial and acquittal for bigamy, which became the occasion of the publication of The Case of Madam Mary Carleton. Here she narrates her version of her life as a 'German Princess', the daughter of the Earl of Cologne, though by most accounts she was born Mary Moders, the daughter of a Canterbury fiddler who married first a Canterbury shoemaker, Thomas Steadman, and then a surgeon, Thomas Day. Within her own time, Carleton was the subject of more than twenty-six pamphlets published in 1663 and 1673; this volume reprints Carleton's own The Case of Madam Mary Carleton along with representative selections of pamphlets written about her. Her trial produced its own 'pamphlet war' between Mary and her husband John and her story inspired a play and a mock epic, which significantly responded to Carleton's own emphasis on performance and epic romance in fashioning her aristocratic identity.

Book The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England written by Alastair Bellany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.

Book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820   etc

Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820 etc written by David Jardine and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Judicial Proceedings First Printed Before 1801

Download or read book American Judicial Proceedings First Printed Before 1801 written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984-06-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only comprehensive bibliography of American judicial proceedings before 1801. It lists the exact title of everything that was printed before 1801, except in newspapers, about actual judicial proceedings within the 1801 territorial boundaries of the United States. It also covers printed rules of court applicable to those proceedings, judicial proceedings in England relating to the American colonies, and American reprintings of the reports of English and European trials. The bibliography is organized chronologically by jurisdiction, and by subject. An Index of Parallel Entries provides cross-references to 66 other bibliographical sources.

Book Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Regicide s Widow

Download or read book The Regicide s Widow written by Antony Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 2 September 1685 Lady Alice Lisle was the last woman to be beheaded in England. The 67-year-old widow was accused of sheltering a clergyman involved in Monmouth's Rebellion. Her trial was the first of the infamous Bloody Assize and was characterised by Judge Jeffrey's vengeful attitude and bullying manner.

Book Law  Regulation  and Governance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Mac Neil
  • Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Law Regulation and Governance written by Michael Mac Neil and published by Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents a comprehensive view of the ways in which the state and social actors use a range of rules and practices to govern and control many areas of social and work life, from the environment to cyberspace, from labour relations to corporate governance. The book explores the impact of globalization and technological change on regulation and governance and the challenges they pose to traditional notions of state sovereignty."--Cover.

Book The Show Within

    Book Details:
  • Author : François Laroque
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Show Within written by François Laroque and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Pirates in Print and Performance

Download or read book British Pirates in Print and Performance written by M. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great period of maritime commerce, exploration, and naval conflict. British Pirates in Print and Performanc e explores representations of pirates through dozens of stage performances, including adaptations by Byron, Scott, and Cooper.