After some nobles and other fighting men surrendered Rochester castle to King John in 1215, John wanted to hang the nobles but refrained from doing so on the advice of one of his military captains. Would hanging the nobles for making war on the king have been lawful? This question about the law of treason has provoked inconclusive debate among historians who have sought to determine whether, in this period, making war against the English king was legally classified as lèse-majesté (crimen laesae majestatis), proditio or infidelitas. This article, however, asks whether the nobles whom John wanted to hang were guilty of traïson, as this vernacular term was used in the History of William Marshal (c. 1230). On this basis, the paper concludes th...
This article examines three vernacular chronicles written from contrasting view-points: the Scalacro...
This study has two primary purposes; to examine the evolution of the concepts and statutes of Tudor ...
In 1794, Britain experienced a public crisis in representation when twelve men were tried for “Const...
After some nobles and other fighting men surrendered Rochester castle to King John in 1215, John wan...
Analyzing Early Medieval legal and historical sources, the author reconstructs the main stages of th...
This dissertation is an analysis of the manner in which the concept of treason might be directed aga...
This study argues that treason is understood as a breach of allegiance in medieval popular traditio...
In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. A...
The first Treason Act known in English History was enacted by Edward III in 1352, or sometimes dated...
This chapter examines the intertwining of politics and law in the prosecutions of English captains c...
In Elizabethan drama treason was a dramatic device of paramount importance. Most of Shakespeare’s wo...
textBetween the years 1660 and 1715 the government in England used treason law as an effective, if ...
The concept of treason in historical research is usually presented either as a treason‑event (see t...
Treason, in the romances of Chrdtien de Troyes and the lais of Marie de France, is explored more oft...
This article examines the English law of petit treason (murder of a husband by his wife or a master ...
This article examines three vernacular chronicles written from contrasting view-points: the Scalacro...
This study has two primary purposes; to examine the evolution of the concepts and statutes of Tudor ...
In 1794, Britain experienced a public crisis in representation when twelve men were tried for “Const...
After some nobles and other fighting men surrendered Rochester castle to King John in 1215, John wan...
Analyzing Early Medieval legal and historical sources, the author reconstructs the main stages of th...
This dissertation is an analysis of the manner in which the concept of treason might be directed aga...
This study argues that treason is understood as a breach of allegiance in medieval popular traditio...
In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. A...
The first Treason Act known in English History was enacted by Edward III in 1352, or sometimes dated...
This chapter examines the intertwining of politics and law in the prosecutions of English captains c...
In Elizabethan drama treason was a dramatic device of paramount importance. Most of Shakespeare’s wo...
textBetween the years 1660 and 1715 the government in England used treason law as an effective, if ...
The concept of treason in historical research is usually presented either as a treason‑event (see t...
Treason, in the romances of Chrdtien de Troyes and the lais of Marie de France, is explored more oft...
This article examines the English law of petit treason (murder of a husband by his wife or a master ...
This article examines three vernacular chronicles written from contrasting view-points: the Scalacro...
This study has two primary purposes; to examine the evolution of the concepts and statutes of Tudor ...
In 1794, Britain experienced a public crisis in representation when twelve men were tried for “Const...