Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521037556)

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.

Author: K. J. Kesselring
ISBN-10: 0521037557
ISBN-13: 9780521037556
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d