The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England, 1450 1642

by Alan Cromartie

Book Overview

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. Though he does not neglect the role of narrowly religious disagreements, Cromartie brings out the way that 'religious' and 'secular' values came to be closely intertwined: to the majority of Charles's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521788110
• ISBN13: 9780521788113
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"