Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: Parts 1 to 3. 1907
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: Parts I to III. 1907
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543, Parts I to [XI]
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: Parts 1 to 3. 1907
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Itinerary of John Leland in Or about the Years 1535-1543: pts 1-3
Author: John Leland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Author: Gregory J. Durston
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The growth in England and Britain’s merchant marine from the medieval period onwards meant that an increasing number of criminal offences were committed on or against the country’s vessels while they were at sea. Between 1536 and 1834, such crimes were determined at the Admiralty Sessions if brought to trial. This was a special part of the wider Admiralty Court, which, unlike the other forums in that tribunal, used English common law procedure rather than Roman civil law to try its cases. To a modest extent, this produced a ‘hybrid’ court, dominated by the common law but influenced by aspects of Europe’s other major legal tradition. The Admiralty Sessions also had their own (highly singular) regime for executing convicts, used the Marshalsea prison to hold their suspects and displayed the Admiralty Court’s ceremonial silver oar at their hearings and hangings. During the near three centuries of its existence, the Admiralty Sessions faced enormous legal and logistical problems. The crimes they tried might occur thousands of miles and months of sailing time away from England. Assembling evidence that would ‘stand up’ in front of a jury was a constant challenge, not least because of the peripatetic lives of the seafarers who provided most of their witnesses. The forum’s relationship with terrestrial criminal courts in England was often difficult and the demarcation between their respective jurisdictions was complicated and subject to change. Despite all of these problems, the court experienced significant successes, as well as notable failures, in its battle to deal with a litany of serious maritime crimes, ranging from piracy to murder at sea. It also spawned a series of Vice-Admiralty Courts in English and British colonies around the world. This book documents the origins, development and abolition of the Admiralty Sessions. It discusses all of the major crimes that were determined by the forum, and examines some of the more arcane and unusual offences that ended up there. Some of the unusual challenges presented by the maritime environment, whether the impossibility of preserving dead bodies at sea, the extensive power given to captains to physically punish sailors, the difficulty of securing suspects in small vessels, or the often gruesome problems occasioned by the marginal legal status of slaves, are also considered in detail.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443873616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The growth in England and Britain’s merchant marine from the medieval period onwards meant that an increasing number of criminal offences were committed on or against the country’s vessels while they were at sea. Between 1536 and 1834, such crimes were determined at the Admiralty Sessions if brought to trial. This was a special part of the wider Admiralty Court, which, unlike the other forums in that tribunal, used English common law procedure rather than Roman civil law to try its cases. To a modest extent, this produced a ‘hybrid’ court, dominated by the common law but influenced by aspects of Europe’s other major legal tradition. The Admiralty Sessions also had their own (highly singular) regime for executing convicts, used the Marshalsea prison to hold their suspects and displayed the Admiralty Court’s ceremonial silver oar at their hearings and hangings. During the near three centuries of its existence, the Admiralty Sessions faced enormous legal and logistical problems. The crimes they tried might occur thousands of miles and months of sailing time away from England. Assembling evidence that would ‘stand up’ in front of a jury was a constant challenge, not least because of the peripatetic lives of the seafarers who provided most of their witnesses. The forum’s relationship with terrestrial criminal courts in England was often difficult and the demarcation between their respective jurisdictions was complicated and subject to change. Despite all of these problems, the court experienced significant successes, as well as notable failures, in its battle to deal with a litany of serious maritime crimes, ranging from piracy to murder at sea. It also spawned a series of Vice-Admiralty Courts in English and British colonies around the world. This book documents the origins, development and abolition of the Admiralty Sessions. It discusses all of the major crimes that were determined by the forum, and examines some of the more arcane and unusual offences that ended up there. Some of the unusual challenges presented by the maritime environment, whether the impossibility of preserving dead bodies at sea, the extensive power given to captains to physically punish sailors, the difficulty of securing suspects in small vessels, or the often gruesome problems occasioned by the marginal legal status of slaves, are also considered in detail.
Roads & Roadmaking
Author: Robert Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Writing and the English Renaissance
Author: William Zunder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known - especially women - writers are also examined. Radical writing and popular culture are considered as well. The scope of the study not only extends the parameters for debate in Renaissance studies, but also adopts a radical interdisciplinary approach, bridging the gap between literary, historical, cultural and women's studies, leading to a much fuller picture of life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors discussed are placed in their full historical and literary context, with an extensive selection of original documentation included in the text - for example, from The Book of Common Prayer or the Homilies to contextualize the writing under discussion. This distinctive approach, combined with a detailed chronology of the period and bibliography, embracing both canonical and non-canonical writers, makes this volume a unique reference resource and course reader for Renaissance studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known - especially women - writers are also examined. Radical writing and popular culture are considered as well. The scope of the study not only extends the parameters for debate in Renaissance studies, but also adopts a radical interdisciplinary approach, bridging the gap between literary, historical, cultural and women's studies, leading to a much fuller picture of life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors discussed are placed in their full historical and literary context, with an extensive selection of original documentation included in the text - for example, from The Book of Common Prayer or the Homilies to contextualize the writing under discussion. This distinctive approach, combined with a detailed chronology of the period and bibliography, embracing both canonical and non-canonical writers, makes this volume a unique reference resource and course reader for Renaissance studies.