{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-treason-in-english-history-9780367509934","title":"The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Treason in English History \u003c\/i\u003eis a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllen Boyer\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law, and he earned his doctorate at the University of St Andrews. As a lawyer, he served as senior appellate counsel at the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement. In a parallel career, he has published numerous articles on legal history, and five books, notably \u003ci\u003eSir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRocky Boyer's War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Nicholls\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow, and former President, Librarian and a Tutor of St John's College Cambridge. He has published extensively on British conspiracies and succession politics. His books include \u003ci\u003eInvestigating Gunpowder Plot\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eA History of the Modern British Isles 1529-1603\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and, with Penry Williams, \u003ci\u003eSir Walter Raleigh in Life and Legend\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457880199442,"sku":"9780367509934","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0d14095-4223-4cc4-8e54-3e27f48dd769.jpg?v=1729945139","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-treason-in-english-history-9780367509934","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}