Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves

ISBN-13: 9781119081951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 200 str.

Chris R. Kyle

Opis

Bringing together essays from nine established parliamentary scholars, the volume offers new insights and reflections on the management and importance of Parliaments for the effective and smooth running of the state during the Tudor and early Stuart period.

• Nine parliamentary scholars pay tribute to the esteemed scholarship of Michael Graves, using his work as a springboard for continued discussion of the management of Parliaments throughout the Tudor and early Stuart period
• Examines how sermons, state openings, patrons, procedure, foreign policy and individuals were all deployed to better manage Parliaments throughout the period
• Offers original views and considerations on the management of, and the importance of, Parliaments during this time
• Edited under the expert guidance of esteemed Parliamentary and History scholar, Chris R. Kyle

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Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction
Chris R. Kyle

2. Anticlericalism and the Early Tudor Parliament
P.R. Cavill

3. Staging the Settlement: Shekhar Kapur and the Parliament of 1559
David Dean

4. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Managing with the Men–of–Business
Norman Jones

5. Foreign Policy and the Parliament of 1576
Glyn Parry

6. The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Parliaments
Paul E.J. Hammer

7. The Development of Parliamentary Privilege, 1604 29
Paul M. Hunneyball

8. Wrangling Lawyers : Proclamations and the Management of the English Parliament of 1621
Chris R. Kyle

9. Preaching and English Parliaments in the 1620s
Lori Anne Ferrell

10. The Street Theatre of State: The Ceremonial Opening of Parliament, 1603 60
Jason Peacey

Index

O autorze

Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England (2012) and has edited three books, Parliament, Politics and Elections (2001), Parliament at Work (with Jason Peacey, 2002) and Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (2008). He has held fellowships from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and Hughes Hall, Cambridge University. He is currently the editor of The Oxford Works of Francis Bacon, Vol VII: Legal and Political Writings 1613–1626.

Blurb

Michael Graves has done much to define ideas of management in Tudor Parliaments. From the role of the Privy Council to parliamentary men–of–business and the career of Thomas Norton, Graves has opened up new avenues that relay the importance of systematic, planned management of parliamentary sessions. Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments takes Graves work as a springboard for discussion that then moves well beyond the narrow confines of the Palace of Westminster chambers, to examine how sermons, state openings, patrons, procedure, foreign policy and individuals were all deployed by the government and members of the Lords and Commons to better manage Parliaments throughout the Tudor and early Stuart period.

Bringing together essays from nine established parliamentary scholars, the volume offers new insights and reflections on management and the importance of Parliaments to the effective and smooth running of the state. Essays cover anticlericalism; Shekhar Kapur and the Parliament of 1559; William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and the Men–of–Business; Foreign Policy and the Parliament of 1576; The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Parliaments; the development of Parliament Privilege, 1604–1629; Proclamations, censorship & the English Parliament of 1621; preaching and English Parliaments in the 1620′s and the ceremonial opening of Parliament, 1603–1660.