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Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart England.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526115904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing the History of Parliament in Tudor and Early Stuart EnglandDDC classification:
  • 328.4109
LOC classification:
  • JN508 .W758 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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