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"The King’s Peace" And National Construction In Medieval England

Posted on:2016-02-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P C ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330479487897Subject:Legal history
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"The King’s Peace" is one of the core concepts of the English royal law in the early Middle Ages. In Middle Ages, "the King’s Peace" developed constantly with the ancient Germanic idea of peace acting as its source point, this constituted the vehicle for the existence and continuance of the corpus of royal law. After the Norman conquest, in the course of the transformation of royal law to common law, “the king’s peace” was widely applied. It thus promoted the formation of common law and national construction in medieval England. This paper tries From two aspects of concept and institution to comb the history of the concept of "the king’s peace", and it takes the development of "the King’s Peace" as the breakthrough point, from these two paths between the state’s supreme sovereignty belongs to which institution and based interactive structure of center and locality to understand the unique pattern of national construction in medieval England.
Keywords/Search Tags:the King’s Peace, England, the Middle Ages, common law, national construction
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