Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
General Editors
DR ALEXANDRA GAJDA
PROFESSOR ANTHONY MILTON
PROFESSOR PETER LAKE
PROFESSOR JASON PEACEY
This important series publishes monographs that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in Britain between 1500 and the mid-eighteenth century. It counteracts the fragmentation of current historiography through encouraging a variety of approaches which attempt to redefine the political, social and cultural worlds, and to explore their interconnection in a flexible and creative fashion. All the volumes in the series question and transcend traditional interdisciplinary boundaries, such as those between political history and literary studies, social history and divinity, urban history and anthropology. They thus contribute to a broader understanding of crucial developments in early modern Britain.
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Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England
EDITED BY PAUL CAVILL AND ALEXANDRA GAJDA
Manchester University Press
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Contents
1 Introduction
Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill
2 Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament
Paul Cavill
3 The consent of the body of the whole realme: Edward Halls parliamentary history
Scott Lucas
4 The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament
Alexandra Gajda
5 Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England
Paulina Kewes
6 Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament
Ian W. Archer
7 The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments
Simon Healy
8 The politic history of early Stuart parliaments
Noah Millstone
9 That memorable parliament: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 164142
Jason Peacey
10 Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 15471640
Paul Seaward
11 Afterword
Peter Lake
Ian W. Archer is Associate Professor of History at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of a number of books and articles on the social, cultural and political history of early modern London, and in recent years has developed interests in chronicling and civic memory.
Paul Cavill is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. He has written about early Tudor parliaments and relations between Church and state, and is currently studying the constitutional and jurisdictional issues of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Alexandra Gajda is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and Tutor in History at Jesus College. She has written on the political history of Elizabethan England, and is working on parliament and the Reformation in the sixteenth century.
Simon Healy is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust. He has published extensively on political, social, religious and economic history in the early Stuart period, and is currently writing a study of English crown finances between 1580 and 1640.
Paulina Kewes is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Jesus College. She has published widely on drama, history and politics from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and is working on the issue of royal succession in Tudor and Stuart England.
Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University. He has written prolifically on the religious, political and cultural history of Elizabethan and early Stuart England.
Scott Lucas is Professor of English Literature at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. He is the author of the monograph