Author: Robert Howard LordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Parliaments of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author: Robert Howard LordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages
Author: H. G. RichardsonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512806013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Based largely on manuscript material, this comprehensive account of the Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages shows that early Irish parliaments cannot be identified either in form or function with their modern namesake and, consequently, demonstrates that the concept of governmental democracy had a much slower, more gradual development than historians have heretofore believed. The history of the Irish Parliaments proper begins with that held at Castledermot in mid-June 1264. During the reign of Edward II and the early years of Edward III significant changes took place—changes, the authors, point out, similar to those taking place in the development of the English Parliament, though there were important differences. The book continues with a description of the Irish Parliament in the middle years of Edward III's reign and concludes with an account of the parliament at Drogheda held in 1494, when the passing of Poyning's Law brought the period of medieval parliaments to a close. The appendices include an almost complete list of the meetings convened between 1264 and 1494, as well as copies of documents that, the authors say, are the only means whereby a close glimpse may be had of the personnel and deliberations of the Privy Council.
A History of Parliament
Author: Ronald ButtPublisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Narrative framework of political history to describe the way parliament began and evolved through the Middle Ages.This volume is primarily concerned with the growth of parliamentary politics and power. It describes parliament's involvement in the depositions of Edward II and Richard II.
The English Parliament in the Middle Ages
Author: R. G. DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Consent, Coercion, and Limit
Author: Arthur P. MonahanPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773564063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In addition, he deals with the development of these concepts in Roman and canon law and in the practices of the emerging states of France and England and the Italian city-states, as well as considering works in legal and administrative theory and constitutional documents. In each case his interpretations are placed in the wider contexts of developments in law, church, and administrative reform. The result is the first complete study of these three crucial terms as used in the Middle Ages, as well as an excellent summary of work done in a number of specialized fields over the last twenty-five years. The book is of considerable importance not only to medieval studies but to the history of political theory and to political theory itself. It brings together and explains the relevance of a vast amount of material previously known only to a few specialists, documenting Monahan's argument that later political thought has been significantly influenced by medieval formulations of the concepts of consent, coercion, and limit.
Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690)
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004363912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690) offers a wide consideration of the nature of representation in the political assemblies of pre-modern European, evaluating their creation, evolution, membership and ideological context.
The Military Revolution and Political Change
Author: Brian DowningPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691024758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.
A History of Law in Europe
Author: Antonio Padoa-SchioppaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 823
Book Description
The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.
Universities in Politics
Author: John W. BaldwinPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England
Author: Matthew GiancarloPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521147729
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the relationship between the development of parliament and the practice of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. During this period, the bureaucratic political culture of parliamentarians, clerks, and scribes overlapped with the artistic practice of major poets like Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, all of whom had strong ties to parliament. Matthew Giancarlo investigates these poets together in the specific context of parliamentary events and controversies, as well as in the broader environment of changing constitutional ideas. Two chapters provide fresh analyses of the parliamentary ideologies that developed from the thirteenth century onward, and four chapters investigate the parliamentary aspects of each poet, as well as the later Lancastrian imitators of Langland. This study demonstrates the importance of the changing parliamentary environs of late medieval England and their centrality to the early growth of English narrative and lyric forms.