Cavill / Unknown / Gajda Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1590-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Cavill, Paul

Gajda, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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