Treason and the state : law, politics and ideology in the English Civil War / D. Alan Orr.
This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford, in the spr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495960 |
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