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Politics, Law and Counsel in Tudor and Early Stuart England

By John Guy

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
0860788326, 9780860788324
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52527690 bytes)
Series
Variorum Collected Studies
Pages
336\337
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-09-10 01:52:02

Description

This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism. Main themes include 'imperial' monarchy and the theory of 'counsel', Parliament and the royal supremacy, conciliar politics and organization, the relationship of law and equity, and the jurisdictional rivalry between the courts of common law and canon law. The author argues that norms of Tudor England were sufficiently pluralist to satisfy both 'absolutist' and 'constitutionalist' aspirations, whereas by 1628 they proved no longer effective as a mechanism for the orderly conduct of politics. The clash between two conflicting sets of values was translated into a clash of ideologies.

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