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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

CriminologyGeneral LawBritish History

ISBN10: 0521819482
ISBN13: 9780521819480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 10 2003
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions of the Tudor monarchs. Drawing upon the historiographies of law and society, political culture, and state formation, mercy is used as a lens through which to examine the nature and limits of participation in the early modern polity.

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