This book questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of rights-based judicial review by constitutional courts.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture.

Exploring early modern concepts of honour, this book brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of English imperialism in Ireland.

The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.

An intellectual biography of the Scottish theologian and political theorist Samuel Rutherford (1600-61).

This ground-breaking work traces developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601.

A study of popular responses to the English Reformation after Henry VIII's break from Rome.