Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Collins, John M.

Cambridge University Press

05/2016

332

Dura

Inglês

9781107092877

15 a 20 dias

John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. Rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws, and was a vital component of England's domestic and imperial legal order.
Introduction; Prologue; Part I. A Jurisprudence of Terror: 1. Making martial law; 2. Making summary martial law; 3. Transforming martial law; Part II. Martial Law and English Parliaments: 4. Bound by wartime: martial law and the petition of right; 5. Unbound by parliament: martial law and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 6. Bound and unbound: martial law in the Restoration empire; 7. The rise of martial law; Conclusion; Manuscript bibliography; Index.
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