Discourse on history, law, and governance in the public career of John Selden, 1610-1635

by Paul Christianson

1996 451 pages eng

Paul Christianson analyses the relevant books and public speeches of Selden from 1610 to 1635 as a means of understanding the genesis of constitutional conflict in seventeenth-century England. He discusses Selden's early histories of English and European institutions, showing how Selden's interpret…