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ISBN:
9780511495854
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Content:
Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions of the Tudor monarchs. Drawing upon the historiographies of law and society, political culture and state formation, mercy is used as a lens through which to examine the nature and limits of participation in the early modern polity. Contemporaries deemed mercy as both a prerogative and duty of the ruler. Public expectations of mercy imposed restraints on the sovereign's exercise of power. Yet the discretionary uses of punishment and mercy worked in tandem to mediate social relations of power in ways that most often favoured the growth of the state
Content:
Mercy and the state -- Changing approaches to punishment and mitigation -- Changing approaches to the pardon -- Patronage, petitions, and the motives for mercy -- Public performances of pardon -- Protest and pardons
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521819480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521037556
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521819480
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511495854
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