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Creator
Date
2016
Location
Cambridge, United Kingdom
England
England
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xiv, 319 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 354604
Folger call number: KD4442 .C65 2016
Folger holdings ID: 502783
Folger call number: KD4442 .C65 2016
Folger holdings ID: 502783
Summary
Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King's laws. Further, it was a vital component of both England's domestic and imperial legal order. It was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and political histories of early modern England and its empire
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Part I. A jurisprudence of terror --
Also known as
Extended title: Martial law and English laws, c.1500-c.1700 / John M. Collins, Eastern Washington University
Subjects
Related names
author: Collins, John M., 1983-