Format:
1 Online-Ressource (304 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781800102743
Content:
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional
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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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cowan, Brian The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated,c2021 ISBN 9781783276264
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
