TY - BOOK ID - 118049618 TI - The state trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England AU - Cowan, Brian AU - Sowerby, Scott PY - 2021 SN - 9781783276264 1783276266 9781800102736 1800102739 1800102747 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Trials KW - Criminal law KW - Justice, Administration of KW - Monarchy KW - Kingdom (Monarchy) KW - Executive power KW - Political science KW - Royalists KW - Administration of justice KW - Law KW - Courts KW - Crime KW - Crimes and misdemeanors KW - Criminals KW - Law, Criminal KW - Penal codes KW - Penal law KW - Pleas of the crown KW - Public law KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal procedure KW - State trials KW - Court proceedings KW - Procedure (Law) KW - History KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Great Britain KW - 1603-1799 KW - Stuart monarchs. KW - constitutional monarchy. KW - historical memory. KW - legal process. KW - political conflict. KW - state trials. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118049618 AB - State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial' emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world. ER -