Author: Bertie WilkinsonPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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
Author: Bertie WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Constitutional History of England, 1216-1399
Author: Bertie WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Constitutional History of England, 1216-1399: Politics and the constitution, 1307-1399
Author: Bertie WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Constitutional History of England
Author: Bertie WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
Author: John PitcherPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639283
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of medieval and early modern England as expressed by and realized in its drama exclusive of Shakespeare.
A Sociology of Constitutions
Author: Chris ThornhillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139495801
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.
A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
Author: Julius J. MarkePublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363919
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.
Fictions of Advice
Author: Judith FersterPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512805521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Treason by Words
Author: Rebecca LemonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801462266
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326
Author: Natalie FrydePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521548069
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book reassesses the unusually violent rule of Edward II and the Despensers between 1321 and 1326. It examines the social dislocation caused by Edward's execution of his opponents and the confiscation of their lands in 1322 and the perversion of the law which accompanied it. From an examination of a large amount of unpublished material, Mrs Fryde shows how an exceptionally grasping courtier, the younger Despenser, worked with an equally grasping king to produce for the one an enormously swollen landed estate and for the other a vast hoard of treasure. The new evidence brought to light suggests that it was greed for wealth rather than any spirit of innovation which brought the Exchequer reforms of these years. Queen Isabella's contribution to the king's overthrow and Edward's disastrous relations with her brother, the king of France, are worked out in detail and there is a separate chapter on the contribution of London to the downfall of the regime.