The Trial Of Charles I
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd impr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Chipped DJ with some loss. Otherwise internally sound.
A masterwork of narrative history, The Trial of Charles I chronicles one of the most dramatic and consequential legal proceedings in the history of the English-speaking world — the 1649 prosecution of a reigning monarch by his own Parliament. C. V. Wedgwood reconstructs the tense, unprecedented courtroom drama with meticulous scholarship and vivid prose, illuminating the political, legal, and personal forces that converged to bring King Charles Stuart to the scaffold. With authoritative precision, she details the ideological clash between a king who refused to recognize the court's legitimacy and the Parliamentarians determined to make an example of him for all of history. The tone is measured yet gripping, balancing the intimacy of personal portraiture with the sweep of revolutionary politics. A landmark work of seventeenth-century English history, it remains an essential account of how a nation redefined the limits of royal power.
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Collins
Genre: British & Irish history
Edition: 2nd impr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Chipped DJ with some loss. Otherwise internally sound.
A masterwork of narrative history, The Trial of Charles I chronicles one of the most dramatic and consequential legal proceedings in the history of the English-speaking world — the 1649 prosecution of a reigning monarch by his own Parliament. C. V. Wedgwood reconstructs the tense, unprecedented courtroom drama with meticulous scholarship and vivid prose, illuminating the political, legal, and personal forces that converged to bring King Charles Stuart to the scaffold. With authoritative precision, she details the ideological clash between a king who refused to recognize the court's legitimacy and the Parliamentarians determined to make an example of him for all of history. The tone is measured yet gripping, balancing the intimacy of personal portraiture with the sweep of revolutionary politics. A landmark work of seventeenth-century English history, it remains an essential account of how a nation redefined the limits of royal power.