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Author : ALLEN. NICHOLLS BOYER (MARK.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367509938
Author : Allen Boyer,Mark Nicholls
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003846130
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 : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857631
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004400696
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 : Jonathan Spence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241959145
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 : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801893704
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 : John Barrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0198112920
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 : Kenneth Foard McCallion
Publisher : Bryant Park Press, Incorporated
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0997929235
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 : Gideon Brough
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786731104
The subject of this compelling biography, Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh and military history. Initially a loyal subject of the king of England, he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served. Once committed to rebellion, he proved surprisingly talented at leading rebel troops against a theoretically vastly superior enemy. Gideon Brough reveals that Owain was more than just a warrior: he conceived and implemented a strategy which saw his small, poorly-equipped forces repeatedly defeat Crown troops and bring down the apparatus of governance in Wales. Following these achievements, he held native parliaments and established diplomatic contact with surrounding powers. This led to a treaty with France, after the conclusion of which, he welcomed French forces to Welsh soil to campaign with the rebels. In brief, Owain erected a rebel state and won international recognition, as the book soinsightfully shows. It later reflects on how Owain's foreign support was fractured by the intrigues of exceptionally talented English diplomats at work in the French court and the subsequent creation of an environment which allowed Crown forces to concentrate on defeating the rebellion in Wales. Brough very effectively argues that, although ultimately unsuccessful, Owain emerges from the era as a gifted and honourable leader, giving the Welsh a figure commonly recalled as a hero.
Author : Barbara Donagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199565702
Drawing extensively on primary sources, and with the focus on examining what the war was like to live through - for example the living conditions for soldiers, the conduct of war, etc. - this study illuminates the human cost of war and its effect on society, both in our own day as well as in the 17th century.
Author : Lynda Telford
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473834033
This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life. The most famous and influential of the victims were the two people closest to Henry VIII. His mentor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, a great churchman and a diplomat of consummate skill. The other was to be the Kings second wife, Anne Boleyn. These two adversaries, equally determined to succeed, had risen above the usual expectations of their time. Wolsey, of humble birth, became a price of the church, enjoying his position to the full, before coming into conflict with a woman who had no intention of being another passing fancy for the king. She would become the mother of one of the greatest and most famous of Englands monarchs. They were brought down by the factions surrounding them and the selfish indifference of the man they thought they could trust. Though they succumbed to the forces aligned against them, their courage and achievements are remembered, and their places in history assured.
Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780222509
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 : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134996971
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 : Elton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1960-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521048915
Based on J.R. Tanner's Tudor constitutional documents. Bibliography: p. 471-481.
Author : Andrea McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131771417
Tyburn is the most famous killing field in London. Here's its story in all its bloody glory.
