XIV: 1603-1629 PARLIAMENT AND REVISIONISM

 

Q: 'A battleground for court factions':  Is this an adequate description of Parliament 1603-29?

 

Parliament:

  1. JP Kenyon, The Stuart constitution (documents and commentary)
    [Many key documents are also available online in the Liberty Library]
  2. W Notestein 'The winning of the initiative by the house of commons' Proceedings of the British Academy 11 (1924)
    [The classic sttement of the "Whig" interpretation]

 

'Revisionism'

  1. K Sharp ed., Faction and parliament
  2. CSR Russell, 'Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-1629' History 61 (1976)
  3. CSR Russell, Parliaments and English politics

 

Critiques

  1. JH Hexter. 'Power struggle, parliament and liberty in early Stuart England' Journal of Modern History 50 (1978)
  2. C Hill 'Parliament and people in seventeenth-century England' Past and Present 92 (1981)
  3. TK Rabb & D Hirst, 'Revisionism revised' Past and Present 92 (1981)
  4. R Cust and A Hughes eds., Conflict in early Stuart England (a good collection of essays)
  5. Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake, eds. Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell Cambridge University Press, 2002

 

Ideas

  1. JP Sommerville, Politics and ideology in England 1603-1640; new ed.: Royalists and Patriots
  2. G Burgess, The politics of the ancient constitution
  3. G Burgess, Absolute monarchy and the Stuart constitution
  4. JP Sommerville "English and European political ideas in the early seventeenth century: revisionism and the case of absolutism", Journal of British Studies 35 (1996), 168-94

 

 

The constituencies and localities

  1. P Zagorin, The court and the country
  2. D Hirst, Representative of the people?
  3. P Clark 'Thomas Scott and the growth of urban opposition to the early Stuart regime' Historical Journal 21 (1978)
  4. R Munden, 'The defeat of Sir John Fortescue: court v. country at the hustings' English Historical Review, 93 (1978)
  5. M Kishlansky, Parliamentary selection

 

The king

  1. Jenny Wormald, 'James VI & I: two kings or one?' History 68 (1978)
  2. Pauline Croft, King James New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
  3. C. V. Wedgwood, A Coffin for King Charles (1964)
  4. L. J. Reeve, Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule (1989)

 

The court, court faction and parliament

 

  1. GV Akrigg,  Jacobean pageant or the court of James I
  2. R Lockyer, Buckingham
  3. GE Aylmer, The king's servants
  4. LL Peck, 'The earl of Northampton, merchant grievances and the Addled Parliament of 1614' Historical Journal 24 (1981)
  5.  K Sharpe 'Faction at the early Stuart court' History Today 33 (1983)
  6. Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, eds., Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England 2002
  7. John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown Finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. 2002
  8. Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660 Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  9. R Malcolm Smuts, Culture and Power in England, 1585-1685. Social History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999
  10. BP Pursell, 'The end of the Spanish match' Historical Journal 45 (2002)

 

Two major incidents

  1. JA Guy 'The origins of the Petition of Right reconsidered' Historical Journal, 25 (1982); [but also see Kishlansky's demolition in Historical Journal]
  2. R Cust, The forced loan and English politics 1626-28 [excellent study with implications far wider than the title suggests]

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