Review of 'Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500-c.1700'

Abstract

A comprehensive history of martial law, outlining how it was a vital component of England's domestic and imperial legal order. Part I. A jurisprudence of terror -- Making martial law -- Making summary martial law -- Part II. Martial law and English parliaments -- Bound by wartime : martial law and the Petition of Right -- Unbound by parliament : martial law and the wars of the three kingdoms -- Bound and unbound : martial law in the Restoration empire -- The rise of martial law.