Ken Macmillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Macmillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Macmillan |
| SIGNATURE | MACMILLAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
English Law and its Expansion
Early modern England was a legally pluralistic society. The laws of the Crown derived from its royal prerogative rights, which were based on Roman and common law. The Crown’s excessive use of prerogatives often came into conflict with the English Parliament and the royal courts of common law. This conflict resulted in constitutional crises throughout the seventeenth century and, ultimately, in the ‘Westminster system’ of government by 1800. Along…
For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander B. Haskell argues for the interrelationship of sovereignty and providence in the rise of a “planter commonwealth” in early colonial Virginia (p. 209). Challenging the notion that Virginia was primarily an entrepreneurial endeavour, especially compared to religious colonies such as Massachusetts, Haskell demonstrates that proponents, sponsors, and critics of colonization, both in London and Virginia, linked English expansion into the Atl…
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories proliferated in early modern popular literature. The chapbooks included in this collection describe serious, horrifying and often deeply personal stories of murder and attempted murder, infanticide, suicide, rape, arson, highway robbery, petty treason an…
Exploration, Trade and Empire
Intellectual Developments
Exploration, Trade and Empire - 1
To punish and correct: The rise of criminal courts in Bermuda, 1615–1622
Recent scholars have argued that various clauses in the English Atlantic charters allowed Company bodies, resident governors, and local officials to create and administer legal mechanisms that respected both the wide variety of legal systems used in England and the exigencies of local circumstances, in which for various reasons English law could not always be applied. The application of these clauses facilitated the transfer of English law and th…
Saliha Belmessous, Editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920
Journal Article Saliha Belmessous, editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920. Get access Saliha Belmessous, editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920.New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 278. $74.00. Ken MacMillan Ken MacMillan University of Calgary [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue…
The Bermuda Company, the Privy Council, and the Wreck of the San Antonio , 1621–23
In September 1621, Governor Nathaniel Butler of Bermuda was woken in the middle of the night to hear a report that one hundred Spaniards had landed on the west part of the islands. Bermuda had long been at risk of attack because of its close proximity to the homebound route of the Spanish treasure fleet, so Butler understandably went on the defensive. He ordered the manning of several forts and repaired to the landing area with twenty armed men, …
Shaping the Stuart World 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection
Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640
How did contemporary English and European notions of sovereignty, empire, law, and state formation impact upon English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas? Using documents such as travel narratives, promotional literatures, colonial charters, maps, diplomatic correspondence, and state papers, Ken MacMillan offers a major new study of legal imperialism under Queen Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. He argues that the imperial center…
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court Get access McGlynn Margaret, The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 349 pp. $90.00. Ken MacMillan Ken MacMillan University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 107–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/3003…
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660 Get access Raffield Paul, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix, 289 pp. $80.00. Ken Macmillan Ken Macmillan University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 1…
Disclosing a Great Error: John Dee's Answer to the Papal Bull Inter Caetera
Disclosing a Great Error: John Dee's Answer to the Papal Bull Inter Caetera
Sovereignty “More Plainly Described”: Early English Maps of North America, 1580–1625
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Common and Civil Law? Taking Possession of the English Empire in America, 1575-1630
It has generally been assumed that claims to the English empire in America were most closely associated with the English laws of land possession. This notion is reinforced by the long-standing belief that England eschewed Roman civil law and its derivatives in preference for the unique, domestic, and vernacular common law. As a number of historians have recently argued, however, English contemporaries recognized that the civil law, as codified by…
Discourse on History, Geography, and Law: John Dee and the Limits of the British Empire, 1576-80
Using history, geography, and law as his supporting evidence, the English polymath John Dee (1527-1608) helped the British crown to define and defend the limits of its empire. In a series of works prepared for Queen Elizabeth and her senior advisors between 1576 and 1580, Dee argued for the existence and recovery of a vast British Empire. He based these arguments principally on the nascent precepts of international law. Dee proclaimed the queen's…
Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640
How did contemporary English and European notions of sovereignty, empire, law, and state formation impact upon English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas? Using documents such as travel narratives, promotional literatures, colonial charters, maps, diplomatic correspondence, and state papers, Ken MacMillan offers a major new study of legal imperialism under Queen Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. He argues that the imperial center…
Sovereignty “More Plainly Described”: Early English Maps of North America, 1580–1625
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander B. Haskell argues for the interrelationship of sovereignty and providence in the rise of a “planter commonwealth” in early colonial Virginia (p. 209). Challenging the notion that Virginia was primarily an entrepreneurial endeavour, especially compared to religious colonies such as Massachusetts, Haskell demonstrates that proponents, sponsors, and critics of colonization, both in London and Virginia, linked English expansion into the Atl…
Discourse on History, Geography, and Law: John Dee and the Limits of the British Empire, 1576-80
Using history, geography, and law as his supporting evidence, the English polymath John Dee (1527-1608) helped the British crown to define and defend the limits of its empire. In a series of works prepared for Queen Elizabeth and her senior advisors between 1576 and 1580, Dee argued for the existence and recovery of a vast British Empire. He based these arguments principally on the nascent precepts of international law. Dee proclaimed the queen's…
Common and Civil Law? Taking Possession of the English Empire in America, 1575-1630
It has generally been assumed that claims to the English empire in America were most closely associated with the English laws of land possession. This notion is reinforced by the long-standing belief that England eschewed Roman civil law and its derivatives in preference for the unique, domestic, and vernacular common law. As a number of historians have recently argued, however, English contemporaries recognized that the civil law, as codified by…
Discourse on History, Geography, and Law: John Dee and the Limits of the British Empire, 1576-80
Using history, geography, and law as his supporting evidence, the English polymath John Dee (1527-1608) helped the British crown to define and defend the limits of its empire. In a series of works prepared for Queen Elizabeth and her senior advisors between 1576 and 1580, Dee argued for the existence and recovery of a vast British Empire. He based these arguments principally on the nascent precepts of international law. Dee proclaimed the queen's…
Sovereignty “More Plainly Described”: Early English Maps of North America, 1580–1625
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Common and Civil Law? Taking Possession of the English Empire in America, 1575-1630
It has generally been assumed that claims to the English empire in America were most closely associated with the English laws of land possession. This notion is reinforced by the long-standing belief that England eschewed Roman civil law and its derivatives in preference for the unique, domestic, and vernacular common law. As a number of historians have recently argued, however, English contemporaries recognized that the civil law, as codified by…
Disclosing a Great Error: John Dee's Answer to the Papal Bull Inter Caetera
Disclosing a Great Error: John Dee's Answer to the Papal Bull Inter Caetera
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court Get access McGlynn Margaret, The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 349 pp. $90.00. Ken MacMillan Ken MacMillan University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 107–108, https://doi.org/10.2307/3003…
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660 Get access Raffield Paul, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix, 289 pp. $80.00. Ken Macmillan Ken Macmillan University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 1…
Shaping the Stuart World 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection
Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire, 1576-1640
How did contemporary English and European notions of sovereignty, empire, law, and state formation impact upon English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas? Using documents such as travel narratives, promotional literatures, colonial charters, maps, diplomatic correspondence, and state papers, Ken MacMillan offers a major new study of legal imperialism under Queen Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. He argues that the imperial center…
The Bermuda Company, the Privy Council, and the Wreck of the San Antonio , 1621–23
In September 1621, Governor Nathaniel Butler of Bermuda was woken in the middle of the night to hear a report that one hundred Spaniards had landed on the west part of the islands. Bermuda had long been at risk of attack because of its close proximity to the homebound route of the Spanish treasure fleet, so Butler understandably went on the defensive. He ordered the manning of several forts and repaired to the landing area with twenty armed men, …
Saliha Belmessous, Editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920
Journal Article Saliha Belmessous, editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920. Get access Saliha Belmessous, editor. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920.New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. vii, 278. $74.00. Ken MacMillan Ken MacMillan University of Calgary [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue…
To punish and correct: The rise of criminal courts in Bermuda, 1615–1622
Recent scholars have argued that various clauses in the English Atlantic charters allowed Company bodies, resident governors, and local officials to create and administer legal mechanisms that respected both the wide variety of legal systems used in England and the exigencies of local circumstances, in which for various reasons English law could not always be applied. The application of these clauses facilitated the transfer of English law and th…
Exploration, Trade and Empire
Intellectual Developments
Exploration, Trade and Empire - 1
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories proliferated in early modern popular literature. The chapbooks included in this collection describe serious, horrifying and often deeply personal stories of murder and attempted murder, infanticide, suicide, rape, arson, highway robbery, petty treason an…
English Law and its Expansion
Early modern England was a legally pluralistic society. The laws of the Crown derived from its royal prerogative rights, which were based on Roman and common law. The Crown’s excessive use of prerogatives often came into conflict with the English Parliament and the royal courts of common law. This conflict resulted in constitutional crises throughout the seventeenth century and, ultimately, in the ‘Westminster system’ of government by 1800. Along…
For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Alexander B. Haskell argues for the interrelationship of sovereignty and providence in the rise of a “planter commonwealth” in early colonial Virginia (p. 209). Challenging the notion that Virginia was primarily an entrepreneurial endeavour, especially compared to religious colonies such as Massachusetts, Haskell demonstrates that proponents, sponsors, and critics of colonization, both in London and Virginia, linked English expansion into the Atl…
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