State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

Contributor(s): Cowan, Brian (Editor), Sowerby, Scott (Editor), Cowan, Brian (Contribution by), Goldie, Mark (Contribution by), Harris, Tim (Contribution by), Newton Key, Newton (Contribution by), Knights, Mark (Contribution by), Marshall, John (Contribution by), McKenzie, Andrea (Contribution by), Monod, Paul Kléber (Contribution by), Patterson, Annabel (Contribution by), Sowerby, Scott (Contribution by), Taylor, Stephen C (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9781783276264

Publisher: Boydell Press

Hardcover

$145.00

Pub Date: August 6, 2021

Dewey: 349.4209033

LCCN: 2021287995

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.69" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 1.33 lbs) 306 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social Histo

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: 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.

Brief description: ANDREA MCKENZIE is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada

Review Quotes: Offers a nuanced and rich insight into an important aspect of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English political culture.-- "RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY"