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Treason and the State

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford, in the spring of 1641 and ending with that of Charles Stuart, King of England, in January 1649. | gWm TREASON AND THE STATE EARLY MODERN Law Politics and Ideology In the BRITISH HISTORY English Qjvj Wap D.flaiOrr Cambridge more information - www.cambridge.org 9780521771023 This page intentionally left blank Treason and the State This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth First Earl of Strafford in the spring of 1641 and ending with that of Charles Stuart King of England in January 1649. The book examines how these trials constituted practical contexts in which ideas of statehood and public authority legitimated courses of political action that might ordinarily be considered unlawful - or at least not within the compass of the foundational statute of 25 Edward III. The ensuing narrative reveals how the events of the 1640s in England challenged existing conceptions of treason as a personal crime against the king his family and his servants and pushed the ascendant parliamentarian faction toward embracing an impersonal conception of the state that perceived public authority as completely independent of any individual or group. d. alan orr was educated at Queen s University at Kingston the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge where he received his Ph.D. in 1997. He has taught subsequently at Carleton University in Ottawa and Queen s University at .