Janelle Greenberg

The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story of the 'radical ancient constitution' in English political thought, eleventh to the eighteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791311
• ISBN-10: 0521791316
• Artikelnr.: 20952937

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; 1. Hagiography and historiography: the long shadow of
Edward the Confessor; 2. 'Those most equitable laws of St. Edward': from
the cult of the Confessor to the cult of the Confessor's laws; 3. 'Divers
and sundry ancient histories and chronicles': the articulation of the
ancient constitution in the Tudor period; 4. 'By lex terrae is meant the
laws of St Edward the Confessor': the footprints of the Saxons in the early
seventeenth century; 5. 'You shall be king as while you rule well': the
radical ancient constitution in the civil wars and the interregnum; 6. 'The
noble transcript of the original contract, the Confessor's laws': the
radical Ancient Constitution in the late Stuart period; Bibliography;
Index.