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The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke

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  title={The selected writings and speeches of Sir Edward Coke},
  author={Edward Sir . Coke and Steve Sheppard},
  year={2003}
}
Note on the text, editions, and translations introduction chronology selected readings table of regnal years index. 
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Sir Edward Coke Gets It Wrong? A Brief History of Consecration

  • K. Homfray
  • Law, History
    Ecclesiastical Law Journal
  • 2008
In many modern works of ecclesiastical law, the Institutes of Sir Edward Coke are given as the authority for the consecration of buildings as places of public worship. For authority Coke relies on…

The Cognitive Politics of Writing in Jacobean England: Bacon, Coke, and the Case of Edmund Peacham

This essay demonstrates how disputes over the cognitive processes that structure both manuscript and print helped establish and limit Jacobean state authority. It investigates the 1614 clash between…

The Clarendon Edition of Hobbes’s Leviathan: Leviathan and its Intellectual Context

This article responds to the previous articles in this issue on the new Clarendon Edition of Hobbes’s Leviathan. It focuses in particular on points raised by Kinch Hoekstra, concerning such matters…

Benign and Benevolent Conquest?: The Ideology of Elizabethan Atlantic Expansion Revisited

This essay revisits the language of conquest in metropolitan writings advocating Elizabethan Atlantic expansion. It argues that contrary to the belligerent connotations scholars usually attach to the…

Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776

Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776

More in common (law) than originally thought? A theoretical first comparison of the Magna Carta and the Księga Elbląska

Medieval legal scholars generally do not compare the Polish and English legal systems, though in the 13th century they share a surprising number of similarities. This is especially clear if one…

The Little God of England: The Divine Right of James I and the English Response

This paper analyzes the development of James I’s theory of divine right in England and how its application elevated the sovereignty of the monarch to the extent of absolutism in the early seventeenth…

Was There a Rule in Shelley's Case?

This article compares Sir Edward Coke's manuscript report of Shelley's Case with the printed version to expose the challenges of interpreting early modern case reports. Evidence from the manuscript…

PARLIAMENT AND THE CROWN JEWELS IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, 1641–1644

Abstract This article argues that parliamentary debates over the access to and control of the crown jewels from 1641 to 1644 were intrinsic to the emergence and proliferation of revolutionary ideas…

The Growth of the English Rule of Law

The following is a work in progress and will be Chapter 2 of a book entitled “The Rule of Law, Economic Development, & Corporate Governance.” The first chapter will be an introduction to the major…

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