The Trials of Charles I
Ian Ward
The Trials of Charles I
Ian Ward
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Vivid, entertaining, and engaging
Vivid, entertaining, and engaging
Ian Ward gives us a master-class in the writing of seventeenth-century legal and constitutional history and in the historiography of the downfall of Charles Stuart. The pacy style, rich use of contemporary sources, intricately interwoven, and some cliff-hangers, all make for an enthralling and penetrating read.
The Trials of Charles I lies at the crossroads of law, art, literature, and social history. It is a fresco where the grand narrative of the Civil War is enriched by the pétites histoires of its protagonists. Ian Ward masters the cross-disciplinary implications of sixteenth-century English legal history.
Ian Ward has written a pacy and compelling account of one of the most pivotal moments in English constitutional history. It will be enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike.
This stimulating book charts a very persuasive course through the controversies surrounding Charles I’s trial and execution in January 1649. In the process, it sheds a huge amount of light not only on the trial itself but also on the contested nature of Stuart monarchy and of Charles’s posthumous reputation.
Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of several books including Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination (1999), A State of Mind? The English Constitution and the Popular Imagination (2000), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities (2004), Law, Text, Terror (2009), Law and the Brontes (2011), and Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England (2014).
Vivid, entertaining, and engaging
Ian Ward gives us a master-class in the writing of seventeenth-century legal and constitutional history and in the historiography of the downfall of Charles Stuart. The pacy style, rich use of contemporary sources, intricately interwoven, and some cliff-hangers, all make for an enthralling and penetrating read.
The Trials of Charles I lies at the crossroads of law, art, literature, and social history. It is a fresco where the grand narrative of the Civil War is enriched by the pétites histoires of its protagonists. Ian Ward masters the cross-disciplinary implications of sixteenth-century English legal history.
Ian Ward has written a pacy and compelling account of one of the most pivotal moments in English constitutional history. It will be enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike.
This stimulating book charts a very persuasive course through the controversies surrounding Charles I’s trial and execution in January 1649. In the process, it sheds a huge amount of light not only on the trial itself but also on the contested nature of Stuart monarchy and of Charles’s posthumous reputation.
Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of several books including Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination (1999), A State of Mind? The English Constitution and the Popular Imagination (2000), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities (2004), Law, Text, Terror (2009), Law and the Brontes (2011), and Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England (2014).