Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War

by D. Alan Orr

Book Overview

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against a monarch to a more modern crime against the impersonal state. Prior to the Civil Wars of the 1640s, English jurists construed the law of treason largely as a personal crime against the monarch. The book reveals how the events of the 1640s challenged pre-existing interpretations and led to a revised understanding of treason as a crime committed against the state as an impersonal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521037336
• ISBN13: 9780521037334
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"