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Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547
Laura Flannigan
出版Cambridge University Press, 2023-11-16
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN10093713639781009371360
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UgraEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. Yet the focus on its monarchs' private lives and ministers' constitutional reforms creates the impression that this age's major developments were isolated to halls of power, far removed from the wider populace. This book presents a more holistic vision of politics and society in late medieval and early modern England. Delving into the rich but little-studied archive of the royal Court of Requests, it reconstructs collaborations between sovereigns and subjects on the formulation of an important governmental ideal: justice. Examining the institutional and social dimensions of this point of contact, this study places ordinary people, their knowledge and demands at the heart of a judicial revolution unfolding within the governments of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Yet it also demonstrates that directing extraordinary royal justice into ordinary procedures created as many problems as it solved.