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Early English parliaments : high courts, royal councils, or representative assemblies?
- Title
- Early English parliaments : high courts, royal councils, or representative assemblies? / edited with an introduction by Gerald P. Bodet.
- Publication
- Boston, Heath [1967, ©1968]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | JN515 .B634 1967 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bodet, Gerald P.
- Description
- xx, 107 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Problems in European civilization
- Uniform Title
- Problems in European civilization
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical references included in "Suggestions for additional reading" (p. 101-107)
- Contents
- The business of early english parliaments: hight politics or the administration of justice? -- The national assembly of the three estates -- Parliament as an occasion for the dispensing of justice -- Law-declaring in parliament -- Justice as the essence of parliamentary business -- High politics in parliament -- Omnicompetence: justice and politics in parliament -- Can one really discover the nature of early parliaments? -- The arrival of representatives: why were they summoned and what did they do? -- The representatives as tools of an aspiring autocrat -- Representation as a propaganda technique -- The representatives and taxation -- The representatives as 'vessels of power' -- English representative parliaments and their European counterparts: who influenced whom? -- The Dominicans and representation -- Roman law and representation -- English local communities and representation -- Representation as a European tradition.
- LCCN
- 67029336
- OCLC
- ocm00953457
- 953457
- SCSB-771447
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library