Law, politics and society in early modern England
By: Christopher W. Brooks.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521323918
Subjects: Law -- England -- History -- 16th century; Law -- England -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: English history and the history of English law 1485-1642; title: Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors; title: The initiatives of the crown and the break from rome; title: Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century; title: The politics of jurisdiction I : the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c. 1610; title: The politics of jurisdiction II : multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority; title: The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject : law and political controversy in the 1620s; title: The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629-1642; title: Law and 'community'; title: The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law; title: Economic and tenurial relationships; title: The household and its members; title: The person, the community and the state.