The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.

List of contents

Part One: What Were the State Trials?
Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby
1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor
2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights
Part Two: Restoration State Trials
3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook
4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall
5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie
6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key
Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby
8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie
9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan
10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod
11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson

Index

Summary

The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Cowan, Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, Newton Newton Key, Scott Scott Sowerby, Scott Sowerby
• Assisted by: Brian Cowan (Editor), Brian (Customer) Cowan (Editor), Scott Scott Sowerby (Editor), Scott Sowerby (Editor), Scott (Customer) Sowerby (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781783276264
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-626-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous