Treason And The State: Law, Politics And Ideology In The English Civil War (cambridge Studies In Early Modern British History)
by D. Alan Orr /
2002 / English / PDF
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This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime
against a monarch to a more modern crime against the impersonal
state. Prior to the Civil Wars of the 1640s, English jurists
construed the law of treason largely as a personal crime against
the monarch. The book reveals how the events of the 1640s
challenged pre-existing interpretations and led to a revised
understanding of treason as a crime committed against "the state"
as an impersonal entity.
This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime
against a monarch to a more modern crime against the impersonal
state. Prior to the Civil Wars of the 1640s, English jurists
construed the law of treason largely as a personal crime against
the monarch. The book reveals how the events of the 1640s
challenged pre-existing interpretations and led to a revised
understanding of treason as a crime committed against "the state"
as an impersonal entity.
