Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521037334)

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 entity.

Author: D. Alan Orr
ISBN-10: 0521037336
ISBN-13: 9780521037334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2007
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d