Fortescue's world -- St. German's world -- Reformation and the body politic -- Commonwealth and common law -- Puritanism and Anglicanism -- James, kingship, and religion -- Law, politics, and Sir Edward Coke -- The constitutionalist revolution
Summary
In the first such study for a generation, Alan Cromartie gives an innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten legal system, shaped England's cultural development
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index
