Law and authority in early modern England : essays presented to Thomas Garden Barnes

Law and authority in early modern England : essays presented to Thomas Garden Barnes

Law and authority in early modern England : essays presented to Thomas Garden Barnes

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Edition Details

  • Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Mark Charles Fissel, Buchanan Sharp
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): Delaware
  • Publication Information: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2007
  • Publication Type (Medium): History
  • Material: Biography
  • Type: Book
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/law-and-authority-in-early-modern-england-essays-presented-to-thomas-garden-barnes/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

246 pages ; 25 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Law and authority in early modern England : essays presented to Thomas Garden Barnes is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Responsable Person: edited by Buchanan Sharp and Mark Charles Fissel.
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Copyright Date: 2007
  • Location: Newark
  • Country/State: Delaware
  • Number of Editions: 4 editions
  • First edition Date: 2007
  • Last edition Date: 2007
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD532
  • Dewey Code: 349.42
  • ISBN: 0874139597 9780874139594
  • OCLC: 69680037

Main Contents

Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and the crisis of the 1590s / Buchanan Sharm
Topsy and the King : the English common law, King James VI and I, and the union of crowns / Conrad Russell
The Parliament of 1621 revisited : the beginning of impeachment / Allen Hostman
Military disorder and martial law / Stephen J. Stearns
“Extreame detriment” : failed credit and the narration of indebtedness in the Jacobean Court of Requests / Lamar M. Hill
Anticlericalism and Episcopacy in Parliamentary debates, 1640-1641 : secular versus spiritual functions / William M. Abbott
Early Stuart absolutism and the strangers’ consulage / Mark Charles Fissel.

Summary Note

Deals with four themes: common law and its rivals, the growth in parliamentary authority, the assertion of royal authority, and royal authority and the governed.

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