The Rise And Fall Of Treason In English History
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Author |
: Allen Boyer |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2024-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781003846130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1003846130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History by : Allen Boyer
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. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
Author |
: Allen D. Boyer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367509954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367509958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History by : Allen D. Boyer
"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. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history"--
Author |
: Robert Hutchinson |
Publisher |
: Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2009-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780297857631 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0297857630 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis House of Treason by : Robert Hutchinson
King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers 'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAIL The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay. This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.
Author |
: Jonathan Spence |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2012-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780241959145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0241959144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Treason By The Book by : Jonathan Spence
In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2019-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004400696 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004400699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Treason by :
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.
Author |
: Jonathan Walker |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801893704 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801893704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pistols! Treason! Murder! by : Jonathan Walker
Short-listed for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2008 The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of the year, Vano is swinging from the gallows in Piazza San Marco, while Foscarini is absolved posthumously. Pistols! Treason! Murder! uncovers the shadowy world of seventeenth-century espionage and the truth behind the most infamous miscarriage of justice in the history of Venice. Including vividly illustrated comic strips, accounts of the author's bar tour around contemporary Venice, and painstaking detective work, Jonathan Walker’s story of the rise and fall of a master spy is compelling and highly original. In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.
Author |
: Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2007-06-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403983787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140398378X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Charles I by : Christopher Hibbert
When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone become ruler of England and Scotland. Once shy and retiring, an awkward stutterer, he grew in stature and confidence under the guidance of the Duke of Buckingham; his marriage to Henrietta of Spain, originally planned to end the conflict between the two nations, became, after rocky beginnings, a true love match. Charles I is best remembered for having started the English Civil War in 1642 which led to his execution for treason, the end of the monarchy, and the establishment of a commonwealth until monarchy was restored in 1660. Hibbert's masterful biography re-creates the world of Charles I, his court, artistic patronage, and family life, while tracing the course of events that led to his execution for treason in 1649.
Author |
: Brian Cummings |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2010-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191549755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191549754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Reformations by : Brian Cummings
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. The deepest periodic division in English literary history has been between the Medieval and the Early Modern, not least because the cultural investments in maintaining that division are exceptionally powerful. Narratives of national and religious identity and freedom; of individual liberties; of the history of education and scholarship; of reading or the history of the book; of the very possibility of persuasive historical consciousness itself: each of these narratives (and more) is motivated by positing a powerful break around 1500. None of the claims for a profound historical and cultural break at the turn of the fifteenth into the sixteenth centuries is negligible. The very habit of working within those periodic bounds (either Medieval or Early Modern) tends, however, simultaneously to affirm and to ignore the rupture. It affirms the rupture by staying within standard periodic bounds, but it ignores it by never examining the rupture itself. The moment of profound change is either, for medievalists, just over an unexplored horizon; or, for Early Modernists, a zero point behind which more penetrating examination is unnecessary. That situation is now rapidly changing. Scholars are building bridges that link previously insular areas. Both periods are starting to look different in dialogue with each other. The change underway has yet to find collected voices behind it. Cultural Reformations volume aims to provide those voices. It will give focus, authority, and drive to a new area.
Author |
: Robert Hutchinson |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2011-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780222509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780222505 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Days of Henry VIII by : Robert Hutchinson
After 35 years in power, Henry VIII was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humoured old man, rarely seen in public. He had striven all his life to ensure the survival of his dynasty by siring legitimate sons, yet his only male heir was eight-year-old Prince Edward. It was increasingly obvious that when Henry died, real power in England would be exercised by a regent. The prospect of that prize spurred the rival court factions into deadly conflict. Robert Hutchinson spent several years in original archival research. He advances a genuinely new theory of Henry's medical history and the cause of his death; he has unearthed some fabulous eyewitness material and papers from death warrants, confessions and even love letters between Katherine Parr and the Lord High Admiral.
Author |
: Allen D. Boyer |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804748098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804748094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age by : Allen D. Boyer
Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still cited routinely by practicing lawyers. This book breaks new ground as the first scholarly biography of Coke, whose most recent general biography appeared in 1957, and draws revealingly on Coke's own papers and notebooks. The book covers Cokes early life and career, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603 (a second volume will cover Cokes career under James I and Charles I). In particular, this book highlights Coke's close connection with the Puritans of England; his learning, legal practice, and legal theory; his family life and ambitious dealings; and the treason cases he prosecuted.