Author: J. S. CockburnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Calendar of Assize Records, Home Circuit Indictments, Elizabeth I and James I
Author: J. S. CockburnThe Excommunication of Elizabeth I
Author: Aislinn MullerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004426000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
In The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign. Muller shows that Elizabeth’s excommunication was a crucial turning point for both Catholics and Protestants, one that irrevocably changed attitudes towards the queen, widened political participation and resistance, and posed a destabilising threat to her regime. The Excommunication of Elizabeth I demonstrates how this event exacerbated religious tensions in England’s foreign and domestic politics, and how Elizabeth’s conflict with the papacy shaped the development of anti-Catholicism in post-Reformation England.
The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England
Author: Peter EdwardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520089
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A study of the flourishing market for horses in pre-industrial England.
The Subject of Elizabeth
Author: Louis MontrosePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534758
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of 16th century patriarchal English society. This text illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction.
Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Author: Malcolm GaskillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521531184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An exploration of the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution in England, 1550-1750.
Public Record Office Handbooks
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640
Author: Paul S. LloydPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472510658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system. Examining the diets of various social groups, ranging from manual labourers to the aristocracy, special foods and their preparation, as well as festive events and gift foods, this all-encompassing study reveals the extent to which individuals and communities identified themselves and others by what and how they ate between the Reformation of the church and the English Civil Wars. This text provides remarkable insights for anyone interested in knowing more about the society and culture of early modern England.
Dissing Elizabeth
Author: Julia M. WalkerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822320746
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
DISSING ELIZABETH is a collection of essays focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, and considering the wide range of forms the dissenters used for their critique.
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England
Author: Peter ElmerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198717725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England. Based on a mass of new evidence extracted from a range of archives, both local and national, it seeks to relate the rise and decline of belief in witchcraft, alongside the legal prosecution of witches, to the wider political culture of the period. Building on the seminal work of scholars such as Stuart Clark, Ian Bostridge, and Jonathan Barry, Peter Elmer demonstrates how learned discussion of witchcraft, as well as the trials of those suspected of the crime, were shaped by religious and political imperatives in the period from the passage of the witchcraft statute of 1563 to the repeal of the various laws on witchcraft. In the process, Elmer sheds new light upon various issues relating to the role of witchcraft in English society, including the problematic relationship between puritanism and witchcraft as well as the process of decline.
Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds
Author: Gregory J DurstonPublisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1909976768
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
In this welcome addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent criminal justice system amidst royal patronage, protection, and the influence of wealthy magnates. Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the ‘neck verse’ might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance medley, pious perjury or John at Death (a non-existent culprit blamed by the accused and treated by juries as real); all devices used to mitigate the all-pervading death-for-felony rule. Together with other artifices deployed by courts to circumvent black-letter law the author also describes how poor, marginalised and illiterate citizens were those most likely to suffer unfairness, injustice and draconian punishment. He also describes the political intrigue and widescale corruption that were symptomatic of the era, alongside such diverse aspects as forfeiture of property, evidential ploys, the rise of the highwayman, religious persecution, witchcraft and infanticide crazes. At a time of shifting allegiances?—?and as Crown, church, judges, magistrates and officials wrestled over jurisdiction, central or local control, ‘ungodly customs’, laws of convenience or malleable definitions?—?never perhaps were facts or law so expertly engineered to justify or defend often curious outcomes. Part of Durston’s Crime History Series. Covers the entire Tudor era. Based on first-hand historical research. Fully referenced to hundreds of sources.