Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England Ideas in Context Series Number 72

Cambridge University Press

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England Ideas in Context Series Number 72\nby David Colclough\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Colclough\nTitle: Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England Ideas in Context Series Number 72\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Law: Human rights and civil liberties\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521847483\nISBN-10: 0521847486\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDescribing a central episode in the history of free speech, David Colclough demonstrates that in early seventeenth-century England people had a highly developed language in which to claim freedom of speech as a right and duty, uncovering an alternative tradition to the one that dominates much modern political theory.\n\nDescribing a central episode in the history of.