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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780511495410
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495410
Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law, Legal History, British History 1066-1450, Law, History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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Book description

This 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.

Awards

This book is a revised version of an essay which won the Yorke Prize of the Law Faculty of Cambridge University

Reviews

Review of the hardback:‘[His] general analysis of the redefinition of aliens in the move from Status to Stato/Etat/State [is] very original and very convincing.’

Quentin Skinner

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