Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
ISBN-10
0521819482
ISBN-13
9780521819480
Category
History
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2003-07-10
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
K. J. Kesselring

Description

Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions of the Tudor monarchs. Drawing upon the historiographies of law and society, political culture, and state formation, mercy is used as a lens through which to examine the nature and limits of participation in the early modern polity.

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