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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"English legal history"”.
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Law and the Paranormal: A Critical Perspective on Legal Rationality
… and related ‘paranormal’ practices throughout English legal history. It shows how early modern witchcraft laws evolved into modern fraud and consumer protection laws regulating mediumship, astrology, and fortune-telling. It argues that this development provides a case-study reflecting the …
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Gender and treason laws in Early Modern England : an analysis of elite and noble women’s agency and changing perceptions of treason in the reign of Henry VIII : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand
… agency through their participation in political, legal, economic, and social activities. When elite women exercised such agency, it was imperative that it was done with patriarchal support, either from their husband, male family members, their sons, or the king. During the reign of Henry VIII, it …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… sources from the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period of English history that had predated the Norman Conquest of 1066. These manuscripts had formerly been held in abbeys and religious houses across the country. However, after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s, this …