TY - BOOK AU - Cavill,Paul AU - Gajda,Alexandra TI - Writing the history of parliament in Tudor and early Stuart England T2 - Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain SN - 9781526115904 AV - JN175 U1 - 342.4209 PY - 2018/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Constitutional history KW - Great Britain KW - Sources KW - LAW KW - Constitutional KW - bisacsh KW - Public KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - 1485-1603 KW - 1603-1714 KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 character of the Reformation and the causes of the Revolution. Meanwhile, scholars of ideas have emphasised the historicist turn that shaped political culture. Religious and intellectual imperatives from the sixteenth century onwards evoked a new interest in the evolution of parliament, framing the ways that contemporaries interpreted, legitimised and contested Church, state and political hierarchies UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1846972 ER -