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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    10 December 2009
    17 August 2006
    ISBN:
    9780511617775
    9780521782692
    9780521788113
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617775
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.61kg, 328 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 328 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (75)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (75)
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    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 subjects, the rights of the clergy and the king were legal rights; the institutional structure of Church and state was an expression of monarchical power, obedience to the king and to the law was a religious duty. A proper understanding of this cluster of ideas reveals why Charles found England so difficult to control and why both parties in the civil war believed that they were fighting for established institutions.

    Reviews

    "[...]this important book presents a coherent argument and will be required reading for scholars of the political philosophy and high politics of early modern England."
    -Andrew Hopper, H-Albion

    "This is a wide-ranging and illuminating study[...]the thesis is highly persuasive."
    Richard Cust, University of Birmingham, American Historical Review

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