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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

Kesselring, K. J.

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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State

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.

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Title of ebook: Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
ISBN: 9780511055232
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1075 kb
Pages: 252
Released online for download: 07-09-1999
Author of eBook: Kesselring, K. J.