Rise And Fall Of Treason In English History

Author : Allen Boyer,Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003846130

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The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History by Allen Boyer,Mark Nicholls Pdf

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.

Author : ALLEN. NICHOLLS BOYER (MARK.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367509938

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RISE AND FALL OF TREASON IN ENGLISH HISTORY. by ALLEN. NICHOLLS BOYER (MARK.) Pdf

Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857631

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House of Treason by Robert Hutchinson Pdf

King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers 'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAIL The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay. This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786722911

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Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England by Francis Young Pdf

Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004400696

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Treason by Anonim Pdf

Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

Author : Peter Rushton,Gwenda Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350005327

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Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800 by Peter Rushton,Gwenda Morgan Pdf

This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain's control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Britain and its former colony continued to be fearful that opposition and revolution might follow the French example, and both took legal measures to control both speech and political action. This study places these conflicts within a political and legal framework of the laws of treason and sedition as they developed in the British Atlantic. The treason laws originated in the reign of Edward III, and were adapted and modified in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were exported to the colonies, where they underwent both adaptation and elaboration in application in the slave societies as well as those dominated by free settlers. Relationships with natives and European rivals in the Americas affected the definitions of treason in practice, and the divided loyalties of the American revolutionary war added further problems of defining loyalty and treachery. Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800 offers a new study of treason and sedition in the period by placing them in a truly transatlantic perspective, making it a valuable study for those interested in the legal and political of Britain's empire and 18th-century revolutions.

Author : Jonathan Spence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241959145

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Treason By The Book by Jonathan Spence Pdf

In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.

Author : Jonathan Walker
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801893704

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Pistols! Treason! Murder! by Jonathan Walker Pdf

Short-listed for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2008 The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of the year, Vano is swinging from the gallows in Piazza San Marco, while Foscarini is absolved posthumously. Pistols! Treason! Murder! uncovers the shadowy world of seventeenth-century espionage and the truth behind the most infamous miscarriage of justice in the history of Venice. Including vividly illustrated comic strips, accounts of the author's bar tour around contemporary Venice, and painstaking detective work, Jonathan Walker’s story of the rise and fall of a master spy is compelling and highly original. In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.

Author : Kenneth Foard McCallion
Publisher : Bryant Park Press, Incorporated
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0997929235

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Treason & Betrayal: The Rise and Fall of Individual - 1 by Kenneth Foard McCallion Pdf

President Trump's early history leads to success and then disgrace as he betrays the United States. A thorough analysis of Trump's ever increasing list of high crimes including treason

Author : John Barrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198112920

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Imagining the King's Death by John Barrell Pdf

It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.

Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780222509

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The Last Days of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson Pdf

After 35 years in power, Henry VIII was a bloated, hideously obese, black-humoured old man, rarely seen in public. He had striven all his life to ensure the survival of his dynasty by siring legitimate sons, yet his only male heir was eight-year-old Prince Edward. It was increasingly obvious that when Henry died, real power in England would be exercised by a regent. The prospect of that prize spurred the rival court factions into deadly conflict. Robert Hutchinson spent several years in original archival research. He advances a genuinely new theory of Henry's medical history and the cause of his death; he has unearthed some fabulous eyewitness material and papers from death warrants, confessions and even love letters between Katherine Parr and the Lord High Admiral.

Author : James S. Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134996971

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Justice Upon Petition by James S. Hart Pdf

This unique book traces the evolution of the House of Lords as a court for private litigation during the critically important years from 1621 to 1675. The book offers a revealing insight into contemporary politics, government and religion, adding an important dimension to the history of the House of Lords.

Author : Andrea McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131771417

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Tyburn's Martyrs by Andrea McKenzie Pdf

Tyburn is the most famous killing field in London. Here's its story in all its bloody glory.

Author : Nicola Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191087653

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Gender, Family, and Politics by Nicola Clark Pdf

Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain.

Author : Townsend Young
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752572636

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Introduction to English History, from the Text of the Rev. John Lingard, D.D. by Townsend Young Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.