The Constitutionalist Revolution

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: Cromartie Alan, Alan Cromartie
• Assisted by: Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521788113
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78811-3
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History