Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 interregnum
- 6 “That noble transcript of the original contract, the Confessor's laws”: the radical ancient constitution in the late Stuart period
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 interregnum
- 6 “That noble transcript of the original contract, the Confessor's laws”: the radical ancient constitution in the late Stuart period
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- The Radical Face of the Ancient ConstitutionSt Edward's 'Laws' in Early Modern Political Thought, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001