books.google.co.uk - Under the Tudor monarchy, English law expanded to include the category of "treason by words." Rebecca Lemon investigates this remarkable phrase both as a legal charge and as a cultural event. English citizens, she shows, expressed competing notions of treason in opposition to the growing absolutism of...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Treason_by_Words.html?id=6xuK4L98f_MC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTreason by Words