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mods: The king's felons church, state and criminal confinement in early Tudor England McGlynn, Margaret 1968- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2023 2023 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xix, 371 pages) "This book examines the subtle but intentional development of criminal confinement as an alternative to capital punishment in early Tudor England. As the judicial establishment looked for ways to enhance law and order without provoking political opposition, they increasingly turned to two traditional mitigations of criminal punishment, benefit of clergy, and sanctuary. Often reviled, then and now, as corrupt clerical rights which served to undermine secular authority and the rule of law, benefit of clergy and sanctuary in fact provided the justices with room to manoeuvre, allowing them to punish a larger number of felons less harshly while avoiding political scrutiny. Their approach to this problem evolved over the sixty years of this study, allowing us to see not only the internal development of both law and process, but the ways in which the judicial system responded to external pressures: both ordinary pressures like the tension between local and central power and extraordinary ones like the Reformation. The dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1540, together with the steady erosion of the wealth and power of the bishops, meant that the institutional and financial foundations on which the justices built this system began to crumble as it was reaching fruition. Over the next two decades they scrambled, with limited success, to secure some small vestiges of the system they had built. The epilogue connects the state of the system in the aftermath of this collapse to our existing understanding of the system in the later part of the century"--Publisher's description. Cover -- Series -- The King's Felons -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Big Pictu…