Margaret McGlynn

The royal prerogative and the learning of the Inns of Court

Introduction 1. The early readings 2. Expansion and debate: Thomas Frowyk and Robert Constable 3. Frowyk and Constable on Primer Seisin 4. Spelman, Yorke and the campaign against uses 5. The Edwardian readers and beyond Conclusion Appendices: Thomas Frowyks Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3 John Spelmans Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3.

Politics, law and counsel in Tudor and early Stuart England

Contents: Introduction: The development of equitable jurisdictions, 1450-1550 A conciliar court of audit at work in the last months of the reign of Henry VII Wolseys Star Chamber: a study in archival reconstruction Wolsey, the Council and the council courts Wolsey and the Parliament of 1523 Thomas More as successor to Wolsey Henry VIII and the praemunire manoeuvres of 1530-31 Thomas More and Christopher St German: the Battle of the Books The Tudor commonwealth: revising Thomas Cromwell The Privy Council: revolution or evolution? The Kings Council and political participation The Henrician age The Elizabethan establishment and the ecclesiastical polity The rhetoric of counsel in early modern England The origins of the petition of right reconsidered Index.

Idiots, lunatics and the royal prerogative in early Tudor England

This article examines the care and custody of the insane under the common law in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Lectures given in the Inns of Court and records of actual idiots and lunatics suggest that, despite the kings prerogative rights over the insane, there seems to have been a general recognition that their families could often provide for them. While the king did not abdicate all his claims to their custody, the administration of those claims demonstrates that a balance could be maintained between the letter of the kings feudal rights, and familial and social expectations of the treatment of the insane.

Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

This is a selection of primary source documents tracing the development of the culture, thought, politics, and religion of Northern Europe, from the Council of Constance to William Harveys description of the circulation of the blood. The book will prove an excellent reader for any course of Early Modern Europe. Its wide selection of documents, covering most of Northern Europe from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century, will introduce students to the complexity of the cultures that defined the work of the Northern Renaissance and the coming of the Reformation. Writers include: John Calvin, Conrad Celtis, Cervantes, Charles V of Spain, Erasmus, Guillaume Filastre, William Harvey, Thomas a Kempis, Ignatius Loyala, Martin Luther, Peter of Mladonovice, Sir Thomas More, Marguerite de Navarre, Nostradamus, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Puis II), Francois Rabelais, William Roper, St. Teresa of Avila, Juan Luis Vives, John Wyclif.