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Aliens in medieval law : the origins of modern citizenship / Keechang Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Ki-ch'ang, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in English legal history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Europe--History.
- Noncitizens.
- Citizenship--Europe--History.
- Citizenship.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Originally published in 2000, this original reinterpretation of the legal status of foreigners in medieval England boldly rejects the canonical view which has for centuries dominated the imagination of historians and laymen alike. Keechang Kim proposes an understanding of the genesis of the modern legal regime and the important distinction between citizens and non-citizens. Making full use of medieval and early modern sources, Kim offers a compelling argument that the late medieval changes in legal treatment of foreigners are vital to an understanding of the shift of focus from status to the State, and that the historical foundation of the modern state system should be sought in this shift of outlook. The book contains a re-evaluation of the legal aspects of feudalism, examining, in particular, how the feudal legal arguments were transformed by the political theology of the Middle Ages to become the basis of the modern legal outlook.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface page ix
- Table of statutes xii
- 1 Introduction 1
- PART I HISTORY
- 2 Foreign merchants 23
- 3 Foreign clerks 60
- 4 Foreign religious houses 89
- 5 Birth beyond the sea 103
- 6 Faith and allegiance 126
- PARTII HISTORIOGRAPHY
- 7 Thomas Littleton, John Rastell and Edmund Plowden 147
- 8 Calvin's case (1608) 176
- 9 Conclusion 200
- Excursus 212
- Bibliography 228
- Index 244.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511495410
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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