Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart England.
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- 9781526115904
- 328.4109
- JN508 .W758 2018
Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament -- 'The consent of the body of the whole realme': Edward Hall's parliamentary history -- The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament -- Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England -- Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament -- The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments -- The politic history of early Stuart parliaments -- 'That memorable parliament': medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641-42 -- Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547-1640 -- Afterword -- Index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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