UID:
almafu_9960966412202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-273-9
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1-80010-274-7
Serie:
Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; volume 40
Inhalt:
State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial' emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Jan 2023).
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Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part One: What Were the State Trials? -- Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective -- 1: State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians -- 2: Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials -- Part Two: Restoration State Trials -- 3: 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press -- 4: The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket -- 5: Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 -- 6: Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials -- Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials -- 7: Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial -- 8: Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 -- 9: Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 -- 10: Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials -- 11: Defeating Innuendos: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) -- Index -- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-78327-626-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781800102736
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800102736/type/BOOK
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