The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

ISBN-13: 9780367509934 / Twarda / 2024 / 392 str.

Mark Nicholls

Opis

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Origins to 1066  2. Treason at the King’s Discretion, 1066-1352  3. The Great Statute of Treason and its Aftermath: 1352-1500  4. An Ultimate Weapon of State: Treason in Tudor England  5. The world turned upside down: a crisis of treason, 1600-1700  6. Treason in the Eighteenth Century  7. The Death of Treason

O autorze

Allen Boyer is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law, and he earned his doctorate at the University of St Andrews.  As a lawyer, he served as senior appellate counsel at the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement.  In a parallel career, he has published numerous articles on legal history, and five books, notably Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age and Rocky Boyer’s War.

Mark Nicholls is a Fellow, and former President, Librarian and a Tutor of St John’s College Cambridge.  He has published extensively on British conspiracies and succession politics.  His books include Investigating Gunpowder Plot (1991), A history of the Modern British Isles 1529-1603 (1999) and, with Penry Williams, Sir Walter Raleigh in life and legend (2011).