Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cavill, Paul; Gajda, Alexandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England. Collectively the essays demonstrate that the evolution of historical conceptions of parliament was central to the ecclesiological and political thinking and culture of the period before the English Revolution.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526115911
• Artikelnr.: 55006795

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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 Gajda 4. Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England
Paulina Kewes 5. Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament
Ian W. Archer 6. The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments
Simon Healy 7. 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 Lake Index