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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2010
Print publication year:
2008
Online ISBN:
9780511660184
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511660184
Subjects:
Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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Book description

A major contribution to debates about the origins of the Civil War, this study of English forests and hunting from the late sixteenth century to the early 1640s explores their significance in the symbolism and effective power of royalty and the nobility in early modern England. Blending social, cultural and political history, Dan Beaver examines the interrelationships among four local communities to explain the violent political conflicts in the forests in the years leading up to the civil war. Adopting a micro-historical approach, the book explores how local politics became bound up with national political and ideological divisions. The author argues that, from the early seventeenth century, a politics of land use in forests and other hunting reserves involved its participants in a sophisticated political discourse, touching on the principles of law and justice, the authority of the crown and the nature of a commonwealth.

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Review of the hardback:'Hunting and the Politics of Violence looks likely to earn a place on postgraduate reading lists and prompt further research. Readers will look at the royal forests with a heightened awareness of their distinct law, culture, and experience, as well as an increased awareness of the significant place that hunting continued to play in visions of English society.'

James Robertson Source: H-Law

Review of the hardback:'In a fascinating study … Beaver argues that the royal forests, and by extension the deer parks constructed by members of the nobility and gentry, provided a setting for the pursuit of honour and the ritualized violence of hunting … Beaver’s book is notable for offering a much richer and more nuanced analysis of these violent episodes than any published hitherto.'

David Smith Source: Historical Journal

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