Treason and the state : law, politics and ideology in the English Civil War / D. Alan Orr.

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state, consisting of studies of four major state treason trials in England including that of the Earl of Strafford in 1641 and of King Charles I in 1649.

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Main Author: Orr, D. Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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