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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 ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cavill, Paul, 1956- (Editor ), Gajda, Alexandra, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Colección:Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill
  • Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament / Paul Cavill
  • 'The consent of the body of the whole realme' : Edward Hall's parliamentary history / Scott Lucas
  • The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament / Alexandra Gajda
  • Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England / Paulina Kewes
  • Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament / Ian W. Archer
  • The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments / Simon Healy
  • The politic history of early Stuart parliaments / Noah Millstone
  • 'That memorable parliament' : medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641-42 / Jason Peacey
  • Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547-1640 / Paul Seaward
  • Afterword / Peter Lake.