Author: Frederic William Maitland
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Thomas Erskine May
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Author: Henry Hallam
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Bryce Dale Lyon
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393951325
Category : Constitutional history, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 669

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Understanding our system of laws requires a knowledge of the past, in particular the roots of a legal tradition that took hold in medieval England. This landmark volume is an authoritative study of the inspirational and legal history of England, spanning the period of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485. In writing this book, Bryce Lyon has produced a work whose breadth of scholarship is unique among studies of the period. Each of its six sections includes chapters on local and central government and the law, as well as on such topics as feudalism, taxation, church-state relations, the Magna Carta, and parliament. With a modern's cognizance of the impact of bureaucracy in shaping government and law, Professor Lyon places special emphasis on the importance of administrative developments. He also demonstrates that many of medieval England's institutions and legal procedures are the forerunners of both modern English and American legal and governmental institutions, pointing out, for example, the close connection between medieval royal prerogative and modern presidential executive privilege, and the similarities between the procedures and privileges of the medieval parliament and the American Congress. The new edition incorporates the results of the last two decades of medieval scholarship and includes completely new bibliographies for each section, as well as a new discussion of the period 1399-1485, which takes into account the latest interpretations of Lancastrian and Yorkist history.

Author: Henry Hallam
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: William Stubbs
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Author: George Brodie
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Dudley Julius Medley
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250013674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.