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Book The Constitutional History of England  1216 1399

Download or read book The Constitutional History of England 1216 1399 written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Constitutional History of England  1216 1399  Politics and the constitution  1216 1307  v  2  Politics and the constitution  1307 1399  v  3  The development of the constitution  1216 1399

Download or read book The Constitutional History of England 1216 1399 Politics and the constitution 1216 1307 v 2 Politics and the constitution 1307 1399 v 3 The development of the constitution 1216 1399 written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Later Middle Ages in England 1216   1485

Download or read book The Later Middle Ages in England 1216 1485 written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinguished historical narrative of the Tudor period considers the major themes of the period: the resoration of order, reformation of the Church andthe opening phase in the development of a new England.

Book Studies in the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Download or read book Studies in the Constitutional History of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries written by Bertie Wilkinson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1937 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom  Volume 1  Exploring the Constitution

Download or read book The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom Volume 1 Exploring the Constitution written by Peter Cane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treason by Words

Download or read book Treason by Words written by Rebecca Lemon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Tudor monarchy, English law expanded to include the category of "treason by words." Rebecca Lemon investigates this remarkable phrase both as a legal charge and as a cultural event. English citizens, she shows, expressed competing notions of treason in opposition to the growing absolutism of the monarchy. Lemon explores the complex participation of texts by John Donne, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare in the legal and political controversies marking the Earl of Essex's 1601 rebellion and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. Lemon suggests that the articulation of diverse ideas about treason within literary and polemical texts produced increasingly fractured conceptions of the crime of treason itself. Further, literary texts, in representing issues familiar from political polemic, helped to foster more free, less ideologically rigid, responses to the crisis of treason. As a result, such works of imagination bolstered an emerging discourse on subjects' rights. Treason by Words offers an original theory of the role of dissent and rebellion during a period of burgeoning sovereign power.

Book Fictions of Advice

Download or read book Fictions of Advice written by Judith Ferster and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition. In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies.

Book Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal

Download or read book Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. Beginning with his native Cheshire, it traces his career through Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal. Most of Starkey's career revolved around his patron Reginald Pole, scion of the highest nobility, but Starkey (and many other Englishmen) managed to balance loyalty to Pole with allegiance to Henry VIII. Out of favour with the king's secretary after the middle of 1536, Starkey turned increasingly to religion, continuing to cling to his conciliarist and Italian Evangelical opinions until his death.

Book Making Human Rights Intelligible

Download or read book Making Human Rights Intelligible written by Mikael Rask Madsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture. But why did human rights emerge as a key social force in our time and what is the relationship between rights and the structures of both national and international society? By highlighting the institutional and socio-cultural context of human rights, this timely and thought-provoking collection provides illuminating insights into the emergence and contemporary societal significance of human rights. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic and adhering to refreshingly different theoretical orientations, the contributors to this volume show how sociology can develop our understanding of human rights and how the emergence of human rights relates to classical sociological questions such as social change, modernisation or state formation. Making Human Rights Intelligible provides an important sociological account of the development of international human rights. It will be of interest to human rights scholars and sociologists of law and anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of one of the most significant issues of our time.

Book England in the Reign of Edward III

Download or read book England in the Reign of Edward III written by Scott L. Waugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waugh examines the strains on English life in the remarkable era of Edward III.

Book The Fourteenth century Sheriff

Download or read book The Fourteenth century Sheriff written by Richard Gorski and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the careers of over 1200 sheriffs appointed in England during the fourteenth century.

Book Historical Studies of the English Parliament

Download or read book Historical Studies of the English Parliament written by E. B. Fryde and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution of English Justice

Download or read book The Evolution of English Justice written by W Mark Ormrod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the fourteenth century for the development of English law has long been recognised. The shocks and challenges of that period - the murder of the incompetent Edward II, Edward III's ever escalating military demands for the war in France and the unparalleled disaster of the Black Death - gave English society a trauma that found its ultimate expression in Lollardy and the Peasants' Revolt. Out of this ferment came the evolution of a system of justice still substantially recognisable today. This key theme for students of late medieval England has often been made needlessly difficult by the rarefied nature of most books available on the subject. The aim of this book is to present in lucid and approachable terms the main outline of the debate and the different schools of thought, and to suggest the best ways by which students can understand a crucial subject and how this helps illuminate many other aspects of English society during the reigns of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II.

Book Troublemaker

Download or read book Troublemaker written by Kathleen Burk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J.P. Taylor was arguably the most influential and popular British historian of the 20th century. This biography explores Taylor's activities as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband and friend during a brilliant life punctuated by success, failure and frequent controversy.