One Grand, Sweet Song

December 1, 2016

“In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love, wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close.”

-from the publisher

The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History

By Allen Boyer and Mark Nicholls
Routledge
340 pages
$180

The book “explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book.”

~the publisher