عنوان

The radical face of the ancient constitution :

(Number (ISBN

0511521391

(Number (ISBN

9780511521393

Erroneous ISBN

0521024889

Erroneous ISBN

0521791316

Erroneous ISBN

9780521024884

Erroneous ISBN

9780521791311

Number

b765087

Title Proper

The radical face of the ancient constitution :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

St. Edward's "laws" in early modern political thought /

First Statement of Responsibility

Janelle Greenberg.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 343 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Hagiography and historiography: the long shadow of Edward the Confessor -- 2. "Those most noble and equitable laws of St. Edward": from the cult of the Confessor to the cult of the Confessor's laws -- 3. "Divers and sundry ancient histories and chronicles": the articulation of the ancient constitution in the Tudor period -- 4. "By lex terrae is meant the laws of St. Edward the Confessor": the footprints of the Saxons in the early seventeenth century -- 5. "You shall be king while you rule well": the radical ancient constitution in the civil wars and interregnum -- 6. "That noble transcript of the original contract, the Confessor's laws": the radical ancient constitution in the late Stuart period.

0

Text of Note

This book deals with the ways in which medieval and early modern historians, lawyers and politicians deployed their own national history to justify opposition to the English kingship. More particularly, it is a study of the origins and development of an historical construct called the 'radical ancient constitution', a version of the past which originated from sources including the so-called 'Laws' of Edward the Confessor. The book tells how a cult of kingship, centred around the Confessor's 'Laws', was transformed from a cult that sacralized the upstart Norman dynasty into one which desecrated the Stuart monarchy. In telling the story of the 'ancient constitution' the author reconfigures the historical landscape of early modern England and demonstrates that the so-called Whig version of history, far from being a concoction of seventeenth-century dissidents, enjoyed the sanction of medieval and early modern historians, scholars and lawyers.

Title

Radical face of the ancient constitution.

Edward,approximately 1003-1066-- Influence.

Édouard,approximately 1003-1066.

Edward,approximately 1003-1066.

Constitutional law-- England, Sources.

Law, Medieval, Sources.

Monarchy-- England-- History-- 17th century.

Monarchy-- England-- History-- To 1500.

Droit anglo-saxon-- Historiographie.

Droit constitutionnel-- Angleterre-- Historiographie.

Constitutional law.

Geschiedschrijving.

Grondwetten.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Kings and rulers.

Law, Medieval.

Monarchy.

Politics and government

Politieke filosofie.

Great Britain, Kings and rulers.

Great Britain, Politics and government, 1603-1714.

Angleterre, Histoire constitutionnelle, Historiographie.

England.

Great Britain.

0

0

6

7

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Greenberg, Janelle Renfrow.

Date of Transaction

20201206104244.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

Y