Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England - Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660

Informationen zum Autor Paul Raffield is Tutor in Constitutional Law and a guest lecturer in legal history, law and literature, Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext An interesting interpretation of the arcane world of the early modern legal community. Zusammenfassung Examining aspects of law! history! art! drama and literature! this is an interesting interpretation of a hidden culture: the arcane world of the early modern legal community! its attempts to restrict governmental power during the period 1558 to 1660! and its aim to represent the order of an ideal commonwealth. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Eating, learning and revering the law: oral traditions and the religious inheritance; 2. Architecture and heraldry: bodies of law, myth and honour; 3. Revels, feasting and role-playing: dreamland, drunkenness and the Utopian state; 4. The theatre of law: dramatic symbols of crown, common law and the Ancient Constitution; 5. Reformation, regulation and the image: the English state and the subject of law; 6. Common lawyers, fundamental law and the idolatrous mask of Charles I; 7. Interregnum: lex, ius and de facto government; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Raffield Paul, Paul Raffield, Paul (Birkbeck College Raffield
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521044530
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04453-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law