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1. English history and the history of English law 1485-1642; 2. Courts,lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors; 3. The initiatives of thecrown and the break from Rome; 4. Political realities and legal discourse inthe later sixteenth century; 5. The politics of jurisdiction I: the libertyof the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c.1610; 6. The politics ofjurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority; 7.The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law andpolitical controversy in the 1620s; 8. The degeneration of civil society intoa state of war 1629-1642; 9. Law and 'community'; 10. The aristocracy, thegentry and the rule of law; 11. Economic and tenurial relationships; 12. Thehousehold and its members; 13. The person, the community and the state; 14.Conclusion.