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  • Insurance in Elizabethan England

    The London Code

    by Guido Rossi ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
    English insurance came into being almost entirely during the Elizabethan period. However, the Great Fire of 1666 consumed most of London's mercantile document, and therefore little is known about early English insurance. Using new archival material, this study provides the first in-depth analysis of early English insurance. It focuses on a crucial yet little-known text, the London Insurance Code ... Read more

    $196.99 CAD

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  • Judas

    The troubling history of the renegade apostle

    by Peter Stanford ...
    In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Peter explores two thousand years of cultural and theological history to investigate how the very name Judas came to be synonymous with betrayal and, ultimately, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Absolutism in Renaissance Milan

    Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329-1535

    by Jane Black ...
    Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco II Sforza (d. 1535), the last duke. As new rulers, the Visconti and the Sforza had had to impose their regime by rewarding supporters at the expense of opponents ... Read more

    $137.99 CAD

  • Freedom Bound

    Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

    by Christopher Tomlins ...
    Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Seeking Sanctuary

    Crime, Mercy, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550

    by Shannon McSheffrey ...
    Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary in England in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Looking anew at this subject challenges the prevailing assumptions in the ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century

    A Reassessment

    by Rebecca Probert ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
    This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Lawyers at Play

    Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581

    by Jessica Winston ...
    Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centres in the first place, and why were they especially vibrant at particular times? Early modernists have long ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

    by Bonnie Lander Johnson ...
    In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed the construction of different literary genres. Drawing on a range of materials, from prose to theatre, theological controversy to legal trials, and court ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700

    by John M. Collins ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
    John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a vital component of both England's domestic and imperial legal order. It was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue Ireland, to ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI

    1483-1558

    by Sir John Baker ...
    Series series The Oxford History of the Laws of England Series isbn 0-19-961352-4
    This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period of supposed despotism, and enhanced parliamentary power, protection of liberty was increasing and ... Read more

    $318.99 CAD