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Kingship, Law, and Society - Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V (Hardcover)
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Kingship, Law, and Society - Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V (Hardcover)
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This book breaks new ground in the study of crime and law
enforcement in late medieval England using the reign of Henry V as
a detailed case study. Dr Powell considers the subject on three
levels: legal theory - academic, governmental, and popular thinking
about the nature of law; legal machinery - the framework of courts
and their procedures; and legal practice - the enforcement of the
law in the reign of Henry V. There exists at present no other work
devoted to setting the legal system of this period in its social
and political context. Rejecting the traditional view of late
medieval England as chronically lawless and violent, Dr Powell
emphasizes instead the structural constraints on royal power to
enforce the law, and the King's dependence on the co-operation of
local society for the maintenance of his peace. Public order relied
less on the coercive powers of the courts than the art of political
management and the use of procedures for conciliation and
arbitration at local level.
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