The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England (Hardcover)

The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial' emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Release date:	August 2021
First published:	2021
Editors:	Brian Cowan (Customer) • Scott Sowerby (Customer)
Contributors:	Brian Cowan (Customer) • Mark Goldie • Tim Harris (Customer) • Newton Newton Key (Customer) • Mark Knights • John Marshall (Royalty Account) • Andrea McKenzie • Paul Kleber Monod
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-1-78327-626-4
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	1-78327-626-6
Barcode:	9781783276264

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