Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions of the Tudor monarchs. Drawing upon the historiographies of law and society, political culture, and state formation, mercy is used as a lens through which to examine the nature and limits of participation in the early modern polity.

Author: K. J. Kesselring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/12/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780521037556

About the Author
Kesselring, K. J.: - K. J. Kesselring is Assistant Professor of History, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.

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