The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution
St Edward's 'Laws' in Early Modern Political Thought
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2006
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02488-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02488-4 (ISBN)
This book redresses the current revisionist tendency to remove 'revolution' from the history of Stuart England. In the process, the entire story of the 'radical ancient constitution' is told, focusing on how rebels turned to important medieval sources in an effort to legitimize resistance, deposition and regicide.
This book deals with the ways in which medieval and early modern historians, lawyers and politicians deployed their own national history to justify opposition to the English kingship. More particularly, it is a study of the origins and development of an historical construct called the 'radical ancient constitution', a version of the past which originated from sources including the so-called 'Laws' of Edward the Confessor. The book tells how a cult of kingship, centred around the Confessor's 'Laws', was transformed from a cult that sacralized the upstart Norman dynasty into one which desecrated the Stuart monarchy. In telling the story of the 'ancient constitution' the author reconfigures the historical landscape of early modern England and demonstrates that the so-called Whig version of history, far from being a concoction of seventeenth-century dissidents, enjoyed the sanction of medieval and early modern historians, scholars and lawyers.
This book deals with the ways in which medieval and early modern historians, lawyers and politicians deployed their own national history to justify opposition to the English kingship. More particularly, it is a study of the origins and development of an historical construct called the 'radical ancient constitution', a version of the past which originated from sources including the so-called 'Laws' of Edward the Confessor. The book tells how a cult of kingship, centred around the Confessor's 'Laws', was transformed from a cult that sacralized the upstart Norman dynasty into one which desecrated the Stuart monarchy. In telling the story of the 'ancient constitution' the author reconfigures the historical landscape of early modern England and demonstrates that the so-called Whig version of history, far from being a concoction of seventeenth-century dissidents, enjoyed the sanction of medieval and early modern historians, scholars and lawyers.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.3.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-02488-9 / 0521024889 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-02488-4 / 9780521024884 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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