Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
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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Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
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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Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England

Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England

Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England

Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526115911
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 07/14/2018
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 509 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

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