Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972

by G. R. Elton

• ISBN13: 9780521533195
• ISBN10: 0521533198
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before. They are arranged in four groups (Tudor Politics and Tudor Government in Volume I, Parliament and Political Thought in Volume II) but these groups interlock. Though written in the course of some two decades, all the pieces bear variously on the same body of major issues and often illuminate details only touched upon in Professor Elton's books. Several investigate the received preconceptions of historians and suggest new ways of approaching familiar subjects. They are reprinted unaltered, but some new footnotes have been added to correct errors and draw attention to later developments.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part III. Parliament: 21. Studying the history of Parliament

22. 'The body of the whole realm': Parliament and representation in medieval and Tudor England

23. Parliamentary drafts 1529-1540

24. The evolution of a Reformation statute

25. The Commons' supplication of 1532: Parliamentary manoeuvres in the Reign of Henry VIII

26. An Early Tudor poor law

27. The Stuart century

28. A high road to Civil War?

29. The unexplained revolution

Part IV. Political Thought: 30. The divine right of Kings

31. The political creed of Thomas Cromwell

32. Reform by statute: Thomas Starkey's Dialogue and Thomas Cromwell's Policy

General index

Index of authors cited.