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The Tudor Law of Treason: An Introduction

By John , Bellamy

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year
2013
ISBN
0415712831, 9780415712835, 9781134672165, 9781315883649
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
371 kB (379914 bytes)
Series
Routledge Revivals
Pages
306\0
Time added
2025-01-22 00:13:22

Description

This title, first published in 1979, was ground-breaking in its exploration of the understudied area of the Tudor law of treason. Bellamy first examines the scope of that law, noting the inheritance from the Middle Ages, the effectiveness of the new statutes and interpretation of the law by the judiciary. Mining the archives for official, legal and literary accounts, the following parts consider how the government came to hear of traitors, the use of evidence and witnesses in trials and finally the fate of the traitor at the gallows and beyond. This is a full, useful and interesting title, which will be of great value to students researching Tudor and late medieval statute law, the Tudor concept of treason and the mores of Tudor society.

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