The Law Of Treason In England In The Later Middle Ages

Author : J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521526388

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The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages by J. G. Bellamy,John G. Bellamy Pdf

Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.

Author : John G. Bellamy
Publisher : Gaunt
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Treason
ISBN : 0912004398

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The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages by John G. Bellamy Pdf

Author : Allen Boyer,Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : John G. Bellamy
Publisher : London: Routledge & K. Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035969455

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Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle Ages by John G. Bellamy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : John Bellamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134672097

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The Tudor Law of Treason (Routledge Revivals) by John Bellamy Pdf

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.

Author : John G. Bellamy
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802042953

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The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England by John G. Bellamy Pdf

This book represents the first full-length study of the English criminal trial in a crucial period of its development (1300-1550). Based on prime source material, The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England uses legal treatises, contemporary reports of instructive cases, chancery rolls, state papers and court files and rolls to reconstruct the criminal trial in the later medieval and early Tudor periods. There is particular emphasis on the accusation process (studied in depth here for the first time, showing how it was, in effect, a trial within a trial); the discovery of a veritable revolution in conviction rates between the early fifteenth century and the later sixteenth (why this revolution occurred is explained in detail); the nature and scope of the most prevalent types of felony in the period; and the startling contrast between the conviction rate and the frequency of actual punishment. The role of victims, witnesses, evidence, jurors, justices and investigative techniques are analysed. John Bellamy is one of the foremost scholars in the field of English criminal justice and in The Criminal Trial in Later Medieval England gives a masterful account of what the medieval legal process involved. He guides the reader carefully through the maze of disputed and controversial issues, and makes clear to the non-specialist why these disputes exist and what their importance is for a fuller understanding of medieval criminal law. Those with a special interest in medieval law, as well as all those interested in how society deals with crime, will appreciate Professor Bellamy's clarity and wisdom and his careful blend of critical overview and new insights.

Author : E. Amanda McVitty
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275557

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Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England by E. Amanda McVitty Pdf

Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : M.H. Keen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134483044

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England in the Later Middle Ages by M.H. Keen Pdf

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, constantly changing period. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the

Author : Christian Drummond Liddy,R. H. Britnell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843831279

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North-east England in the Later Middle Ages by Christian Drummond Liddy,R. H. Britnell Pdf

The medieval development of the distinct region of north-east England explored through close examination of landscape, religion and history. The recent surge of interest in the political, ecclesiastical, social and economic history of north-eastern England is reflected in the essays in this volume. The topics covered range widely, including the development of both rural and urban life and institutions. There are contributions on the well-known richness of Durham cathedral muniments, its priory and bishopric, and there is also a particular focus on the institutions and practices which evolved to deal with Scottish border problems. A number of papers broach lesser-known subjects which accordingly offer new territory for exploration, among them the distinctive characteristics of local jurisdiction in the northern counties, the formation of north-eastern landscapes, the course of agrarian development in the region and the emergence of a northern gentry class alongside the better known ecclesiastical and lay magnates. CHRISTIAN D. LIDDY is Lecturer in History at the University of Durham, where R.H. BRITNELL is Emeritus Professor.

Author : Sarah Tarlow,Emma Battell Lowman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319779089

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Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse by Sarah Tarlow,Emma Battell Lowman Pdf

This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.

Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429575433

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Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages by Thorlac Turville-Petre Pdf

Originally published in 1989, Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are unmodernised and include explanatory footnotes designed to give clarity to the text and enable critical response to the texts. The book illustrates the great range and variety of alliterative verse, both rhymed and unrhymed. The poems range from descriptions of armies, bloody battles, dramatic storms and dreams of goddesses. Whatever the subject, social and political satire, theological controversy and moral admonition is always given a lively and interesting setting. The book contains a succinct and incisive introductory material and a carefully selected bibliography which will encourage further reading.

Author : Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107180789

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature by Candace Barrington,Sebastian Sobecki Pdf

A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134751419

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The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages by Chris Given-Wilson Pdf

First Published in 2004. Four things dominated the life of the mediaeval noble: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. It encompasses the whole of the upper segment of the late medieval society; examines the relation of social status and political influence; describes the noble household and council; examines in detail the territorial and familial policies pursued by great landholders; emphasises the inter-relationship of local and national affairs; is arranged thematically, making it ideal for student use and has implications for the whole medieval period.