1st Edition
Parliament and the Invention of Legislative Power England, 1100-1330
By Matthew Steilen
Copyright 2027
392 Pages
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Routledge
How did the English parliament become a legislature—an assembly that deliberates, makes law, and represents a nation? In this wide-ranging and carefully argued reinterpretation, Matthew Steilen retraces parliament’s emergence across the long thirteenth century, from the royal councils of the Anglo-Norman world to the appearance of a self-conscious “commons” in the 1320s. Parliament, Steilen... Read more
Introduction; 1. Councils in a Time of Disorder; 2. The Problem of Political Deliberation under King John; 3. Deliberative Politics in English Councils and Parliaments; 4. Sources of Political Representation in Thirteenth Century England; 5. Representation in the Parliaments of Henry III and Simon de Montfort; 6. Statutes and the Formation of a Commons
Biography
Matthew Steilen is a professor of law at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA. His scholarship focuses on constitutional history and constitutional law.
