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Title Star Chamber matters : an early modern court and its records / edited by Krista Kesselring, Natalie Mears.

Publication Info. London : Institute of Historical Research, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume).
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Series IHR conference series
Note "An extraordinary court with late medieval roots in the activities of the king's council, Star Chamber came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before being abolished in 1641 by members of parliament for what they deemed egregious abuses of royal power. Before its demise, the court heard a wide range of disputes in cases framed as fraud, libel, riot, and more. In so doing, it produced records of a sort that make its archive invaluable to many researchers today for insights into both the ordinary and extraordinary. The chapters gathered here explore what we can learn about the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came of age in an era of social, legal, religious, and political transformation, and one that left an exceptional wealth of documentation that will repay further study." -- Humanities Digital Library web site.
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Contents 1. Introduction: Star Chamber matters / K.J. Kesselring with Natalie Mears -- 2. The records of the court of Star Chamber at The National Archives and elsewhere / Daniel Gosling -- 3. Reading ravishment: gender and ‘will’ power in early Tudor Star Chamber, 1500-50 / Deborah Youngs -- 4. Sir Edward Coke and the Star Chamber: the prosecution of rapes Snargate, 1598-1602 / Louis A. Knafla -- 5. ‘By reason of her sex and widowhood’: an early modern Welsh gentlewoman in the court of Star Chamber / Sadie Jarrett -- 6. Consent and coercion, force and fraud: marriages in Star Chamber / K.J. Kesselring -- 7. Labourers, legal aid and the limits of popular legalism in Star Chamber / Hillary Taylor -- 8. Jacobean Star Chamber records and the performance of provincial libel / Clare Egan -- 9. A marine insurance fraud in the Star Chamber / Emily Kadens -- 10. Star Chamber and the bullion trade, 1618-20 / Simon Healy -- 11. Contemporary knowledge of the Star Chamber and the abolition of the court / Ian Williams.
Summary "An extraordinary court with late medieval roots in the activities of the king's council, Star Chamber came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, before being abolished in 1641 by members of parliament for what they deemed egregious abuses of royal power. Before its demise, the court heard a wide range of disputes in cases framed as fraud, libel, riot, and more. In so doing, it produced records of a sort that make its archive invaluable to many researchers today for insights into both the ordinary and extraordinary. The chapters gathered here explore what we can learn about the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came of age in an era of social, legal, religious, and political transformation, and one that left an exceptional wealth of documentation that will repay further study." -- Humanities Digital Library web site.
Subject England. Court of Star Chamber.
England. Court of Star Chamber. (OCoLC)fst00599397
Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547.
Law. (OCoLC)fst00993678
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Author Kesselring, K. J. (Krista J.), editor.
Mears, Natalie, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Star Chamber matters 9781912702893 (OCoLC)1263791271
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