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...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Cowan, Brian 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Sowerby, Scott 1973- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Woodbridge, Suffolk The Boydell Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history 40
Schlagworte:	Trials / England / History / 17th century Trials / England / History / 18th century Criminal law / England / History / 18th century Justice, Administration of / England / History / 18th century Monarchy / England / History / 18th century Great Britain / History / Stuarts, 1603-1714 Aufsatzsammlung
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Zusammenfassung:	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trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs.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
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Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 280 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781800102736
DOI:	10.1017/9781800102736