The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2021
306 pages
978-1-80010-273-6 (ISBN)
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The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.
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Brian Cowan | Scott Sowerby
The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
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08/2021
Boydell Press
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Cowan Brian:
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Sowerby Scott:
SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.Cowan Brian:
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Goldie Mark:
Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.McKenzie Andrea:
ANDREA MCKENZIE is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, CanadaSowerby Scott:
SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Sowerby Scott:
SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.Cowan Brian:
BRIAN COWAN is an Associate Professor of History at McGill University.Goldie Mark:
Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.McKenzie Andrea:
ANDREA MCKENZIE is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, CanadaSowerby Scott:
SCOTT SOWERBY is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.
Content
Part One: What Were the State Trials?
Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby
1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor
2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights
Part Two: Restoration State Trials
3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook
4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall
5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie
6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key
Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby
8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie
9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan
10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod
11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson
Index
Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby
1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor
2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights
Part Two: Restoration State Trials
3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook
4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall
5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie
6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key
Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials
7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby
8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie
9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan
10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod
11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson
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