Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Book

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. Prior to the Civil Wars of the 1640s English jurists construed the law of treason largely as a personal crime against the monarch. The book reveals how the events of the 1640s challenged pre-existing interpretations and led to a revised understanding of treason as a crime committed against 'the state' as an impersonal corporate entity.Read More

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  • 0521037336
  • 9780521037334
  • D. Alan Orr
  • 28 May 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 248
  • 1
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