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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'… readable and engaging … Treason and the State is a worthy addition to the 'Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History' series. It opens up significant questions about the nature of the revolution against Charles I and reveals how the revolutionaries struggled to free themselves from precedent and to the re-fashion their conceptions of treason and state.' Alan MacDonald, Journal of Continuity and Change
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Concepts: 1. The statutory basis of English treason law; 2. Sovereignty and state; Part II. Practice: 3. Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford; 4. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; 5. Connor Lord Maguire, Second Baron of Enniskillen; 6. Charles Stuart, King of England; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
