Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age
Author: Allen D. Boyer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804748094

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still cited routinely by practicing lawyers. This book breaks new ground as the first scholarly biography of Coke, whose most recent general biography appeared in 1957, and draws revealingly on Coke's own papers and notebooks. The book covers Coke’s early life and career, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603 (a second volume will cover Coke’s career under James I and Charles I). In particular, this book highlights Coke's close connection with the Puritans of England; his learning, legal practice, and legal theory; his family life and ambitious dealings; and the treason cases he prosecuted.

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age

Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age
Author: Allen D. Boyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2022
Genre: LAW
ISBN: 9781503624207

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the first judge to strike down a law, gave us modern common law by turning medieval common law inside-out. Through his resisting strong-minded kings, he bore witness for judicial independence. Coke is the earliest judge still cited routinely by practicing lawyers. This book breaks new ground as the first scholarly biography of Coke, whose most recent general biography appeared in 1957, and draws revealingly on Coke's own papers and notebooks. The book covers Coke's early life and career, to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I in 1603 (a second volume will cover Coke's career under James I and Charles I). In particular, this book highlights Coke's close connection with the Puritans of England; his learning, legal practice, and legal theory; his family life and ambitious dealings; and the treason cases he prosecuted.

Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws

Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws
Author: David Chan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2014-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107069297

This study of Edward Coke's legal thought reinterprets the political and legal thought of early Stuart England.

Elizabeth's Spymaster

Elizabeth's Spymaster
Author: Robert Hutchinson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0312368224

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Love, Madness, and Scandal

Love, Madness, and Scandal
Author: Johanna Luthman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191069728

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to ignore convention contributed in no small measure to a life of high drama, one which encompassed kidnappings, secret rendezvous, an illegitimate child, accusations of black magic, imprisonments, disappearances, and exile, not to mention court appearances, high-speed chases, a jail-break, deadly disease, royal fury, and - by turns - religious condemnation and conversion. As a child, Frances became a political pawn at the court of King James I. Her wealthy parents, themselves trapped in a disastrous marriage, fought tooth and nail over whom Frances should marry, pulling both king and court into their extended battles. When Frances was fifteen, her father forced her to marry John Villiers, the elder brother of the royal favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. But as her husband succumbed to mental illness, Frances fell for another man, and soon found herself pregnant with her lover's child. The Viscountess paid a heavy price for her illicit love. Her outraged in-laws used their influence to bring her down. But bravely defying both social and religious convention, Frances refused to bow to the combined authority of her family, her church, or her king, and fought stubbornly to defend her honour, as well as the position of her illegitimate son. On one level a thrilling tale of love and sex, kidnapping and elopement, the life of Frances Coke Villiers is also the story of an exceptional woman, whose personal experiences intertwined with the court politics and religious disputes of a tumultuous and crucially formative period in English history.

Great Christian Jurists in English History

Great Christian Jurists in English History
Author: Mark Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108135986

The Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Little has previously been written about the faith of the great judges who framed and developed the English common law over centuries, but this unique volume explores how their beliefs were reflected in their judicial functions. This comparative study, embracing ten centuries of English law, draws some remarkable conclusions as to how Christianity shaped the views of lawyers and judges. Adopting a long historical perspective, this volume also explores the lives of judges whose practice in or conception of law helped to shape the Church, its law or the articulation of its doctrine.

Theater of State

Theater of State
Author: Chris Kyle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 080478101X

This book chronicles the expansion and creation of new public spheres in and around Parliament in the early Stuart period. It focuses on two closely interconnected narratives: the changing nature of communication and discourse within parliamentary chambers and the interaction of Parliament with the wider world of political dialogue and the dissemination of information. Concentrating on the rapidly changing practices of Parliament in print culture, rhetorical strategy, and lobbying during the 1620s, this book demonstrates that Parliament not only moved toward the center stage of politics but also became the center of the post-Reformation public sphere. Theater of State begins by examining the noise of politics inside Parliament, arguing that the House of Commons increasingly became a place of noisy, hotly contested speech. It then turns to the material conditions of note-taking in Parliament and how and the public became aware of parliamentary debates. The book concludes by examining practices of lobbying, intersections of the public with Parliament within Westminster Palace, and Parliament's expanding print culture. The author argues overall that the Crown dispensed with Parliament because it was too powerful and too popular.

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado

Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395848272

Recounts the adventurous life of Ralegh the English explorer who led many expeditions to the new world.