The Trials of Charles I
eBook - ePub

The Trials of Charles I

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Trials of Charles I

About this book

One of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal perspective. Professor Ian Ward brings his considerable legal and historical acumen to bear on the particular constitutional issues raised by the regicide of Charles, and not only analyses the unfolding of events and their immediate historical context, but also draws out their wider importance and legacy for the generations of historians, politicians, and writers over the ensuing three and a half centuries. This is a book about constitutional history and thought, but also about the writing of constitutional history and thought and the forms they have taken -whether as scholarship, polemics, or literary experiments - in collective British memory. Chapters range from the events leading up to and through the trial and execution of Charles; to their theatricality, legality, and constitutionality; to the political writings such as Milton's Tenure of Kings and Hobbes' Leviathan that followed; and finally trace the various subsequent histories and trials of Charles I that presented him either as martyr, Tory or -- in the 18th and 19th centuries -- the Whig.

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Information

Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781350025141
eBook ISBN
9781350024991
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction: An evening in Hampstead
  8. 1 The Casebook of Sir Edward Coke
  9. 2 The Triumphs of King Charles I
  10. 3 The Trial of Charles Stuart
  11. 4 Milton’s War
  12. 5 The histories of Edward Hyde
  13. Notes
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. Copyright Page