USA History. Cash for Honours. Nicola Sturgeon. The Greatest Speeches. Ernst H. Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Presentation by Amanda C.
Barton 2.6.12 To introduce our discussion of The King’s Two Bodies, I turn to Marie Axton’s comment on the peculiar metaphor of the two-bodied monarch: Prior to England’s break with Rome and immediately after, English common lawyers “were formulating an idea of the state as a perpetual corporation, yet they were unable or unwilling to separate state and monarch. Their concept of the king’s two bodies was an attempt to deal with a paradox: men died and the land endured; kings died, the crown survived; individual subjects died but subjects always remained to be governed. Perhaps the lawyers were unwilling to envisage England itself as a perpetual corporation because the law had always vested land in a person” (12). Hence, in Tudor common law we see an articulation of “pre-nation” abstractions of the corporate state.
List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. History - British History in depth: Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus. History of England, The 20th Century. Part 8: England in the 20th Century Changes in Empire and at HomeThe popular,aged Victoria was succeeded by Edward VII, who reigned for nine years (1901-10).
The jovial, popular, avuncular Prince of Wales had waited a long time to accede to the throne. Known as Edward the Peacemaker for his diplomacy in Europe, he used his knowledge of French, Spanish, Italian and German to good advantage. The Twentieth Century - The UK. Much of the twentieth century has been for Britain a period of declining economic efficiency.
At the beginning of this century about 30 per cent of the urban population was found to be living below the poverty level. In 1906 a Liberal-Labour coalition which dominated the House of Commons passed several bills allowing for free school meals for children and old-age pensioners. Laissez-faire liberalism was dead and the foundations of the welfare state were laid. In 1911 the National Insurance Act gave workers insurance during illness and unemployment. History: British History in-depth. Magna Carta. Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution. At the death of his brother, Richard the Lionhearted, John assumed the throne of England, intent on exercising power to achieve his own selfish ends.
To fund military campaigns in France, he extracted exorbitant fees from nobles, who, in turn, raised the rents imposed on their tenants. At the same time, John reduced the lords' customary powers over those tenants, restricting, for example, their power to hold court for those living on their feudal lands. He attempted to influence church elections and confiscated church properties, alienating the powerful ecclesiastical establishment and depriving the poor of the only source of relief available to paupers. He restricted trading privileges traditionally granted to London's merchants and increased their taxes, alienating this constituency as well. King John's tyrannical practices extended to demanding sexual favors from the wives and daughters of his barons and to imposing brutal punishments on individuals who challenged his authority.
Alex Salmond. Alistair Darling. Darling was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1997, moving to become Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 1998.
Spending four years at the department, he spent another four years as Secretary of State for Transport, also becoming Secretary of State for Scotland in 2003. Prime Minister Tony Blair moved Darling for a final time, to Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in 2006, before Gordon Brown advanced Darling to Chancellor in 2007.
Early life[edit] Member of Parliament[edit] After the creation of Scotland's Scottish Parliament the number of Scottish seats at Westminster was reduced, and his Edinburgh Central seat was abolished. Shadow Cabinet[edit] As a backbencher he sponsored the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1988.[5] He soon became an Opposition Home Affairs spokesman in 1988 on the frontbench of Neil Kinnock. In government[edit] Gordon Brown.
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