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Hardcover The King's Felons: Church, State and Criminal Confinement in Early Tudor England Book

ISBN: 0192887688

ISBN13: 9780192887689

The King's Felons: Church, State and Criminal Confinement in Early Tudor England

The King's Felons examines the subtle but intentional development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. As the judicial establishment looked for ways to enhance law and order without provoking political opposition, they increasingly turned to two traditional mitigations of criminal punishment: benefit of clergy and sanctuary.

Often reviled as corrupt clerical rights which served to undermine...

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