Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England. The enduring controversy about the nature of parliament informs nearly all debates about the momentous religious, political and governmental changes of the period – most significantly, the character of the Reformation and the causes of the Revolution. Meanwhile, scholars of ideas have emphasised the historicist turn that shaped political culture. Religious and intellectual imperatives from the sixteenth century onwards evoked a new interest in the evolution of parliament, framing the ways that contemporaries interpreted, legitimised and contested Church, state and political hierarchies. Parliamentary ‘history’ is explored through the analysis of chronicles, more overtly ‘literary’ texts, antiquarian scholarship, religious polemic, political pamphlets, and of the intricate processes that forge memory and tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719099588

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Paul Cavill is a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke CollegeAlexandra Gajda is Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College

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'No book can solve all our problems in understanding the role of the past in early modern politics. But this volume makes a significant contribution to that project by its combination of wide argument and fine-grained detail.'Parliamentary History

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction – Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill 1. Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament – Paul Cavill 2. ‘The consent of the body of the whole realme’: Edward Hall’s parliamentary history – Scott Lucas 3. The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament – Alexandra Gajda4. Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England – Paulina Kewes5. Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament – Ian W. Archer 6. The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments – Simon Healy7. The politic history of early Stuart parliaments – Noah Millstone 8. ‘That memorable parliament’: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–42 – Jason Peacey 9. Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640 – Paul Seaward 10. Afterword – Peter LakeIndex