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Article: Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State.(Book Review)
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- Albion
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- September 22, 2004
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K. J. Kesselring. Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 238. $60.00. ISBN 0-521-81948-2.
One of the more welcome developments in medieval and early modern English history in the last two decades is the emergence of socio-legal, as opposed to traditional, legal history. Scholars such as Cynthia Herrup, Douglas Hay, John Langbein, Peter King, J. A. Sharpe, and J. M. Beattie, exemplify the newer approach, making use of legal and administrative records to expand our knowledge of how people from all sections of society lived, loved, worked, and died. Michael ...