The Radical face of the ancient constitution : St Edward's 'laws' in early modern political thought / Janelle Refrow Greenberg.

Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Pr, 2001.

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Constitutional law -- England -- Sources.

Monarchy -- England -- History -- To 1500.

Monarchy -- England -- History -- 17th century.

Law, Anglo-Saxon.

Law -- History.

Historiography.

Great Britain -- Kings and rulers.

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 16031714.

1. Hagiography and historiography: the long shadow of Edward the Confessor

2. Those most noble and equitable laws of St Edward: from the cult of the Confessor to the cult of the Confessor's laws

3. Divers and sundry ancient histories and chronicles: the articulation of the ancient constitution in the Tudor period

4. By lex terrae is meant the laws of St Edward the Confessor: the footprints of the Saxons in the early seventeenth century

5. You shall be king while you rule well: the radical ancient constitution in the civil wars and the interregnum

6. That noble transcript of the original contract, the Confessor's laws: the radical ancient constitution in the late Stuart period.

Includes bibliography and index.

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xi, 343 p.