Legitimacy In A Bastard Kingdom

"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!" No, this is not the prayer of the New York litigator; it is the battle cry of Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester and one of the great early modern theorists of political legitimacy. Edmund is scheming to usurp the earldom with the invention of...

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Main Author: Applbaum, Arthur Isak
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Center for Public Leadership 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55927