Constitutionalist Revolution - An Essay on the History of England, 1450-1642

Informationen zum Autor Alan Cromartie is Reader in Politics at the University of Reading. Klappentext An innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century through to Charles I. Zusammenfassung Alan Cromartie gives an innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I! showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law! the country's strange unwritten legal system! shaped England's cultural development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Fortescue's world; 2. St German's world; 3. Reformation and the body politic; 4. Commonwealth and common law; 5. Puritanism and Anglicanism; 6. James, kingship, and religion; 7. Law, politics, and Sir Edward Coke; 8. The constitutionalist revolution; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Cromartie, Alan (University of Reading) Cromartie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521782692
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78269-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories