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Mercy and authority in the Tudor state /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mercy and authority in the Tudor state // K.J. Kesselring.
remainder title:	Mercy & Authority in the Tudor State
Author:	Kesselring, K. J.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Power (Social sciences) - History - 16th century. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495854
ISBN:	9780511495854 (ebook)

Mercy and authority in the Tudor state /
Kesselring, K. J.

Mercy and authority in the Tudor state /Mercy & Authority in the Tudor StateK.J. Kesselring. - 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in early modern British history. - Cambridge studies in early modern British history..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Mercy and the state -- Changing approaches to punishment and mitigation -- Changing approaches to the pardon -- Patronage, petitions, and the motives for mercy -- Public performances of pardon -- Protest and pardons.

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. Contemporaries deemed mercy as both a prerogative and duty of the ruler. Public expectations of mercy imposed restraints on the sovereign's exercise of power. Yet the discretionary uses of punishment and mercy worked in tandem to mediate social relations of power in ways that most often favoured the growth of the state.

ISBN: 9780511495854 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

801795
Power (Social sciences)
--History--Great Britain--16th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: DA315 / .K39 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 364.6/5

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