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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The years since 1981 have been one of the three of four lowest
points in the relationship between the Universities and the State
in 800 years of English history. Conrad Russell looks at the
dispute which has implications for academic freedom.
What holds these essays together is the rejection of the idea of
'the birth of the modern world'. England before the Civil War was
not a country welcoming a brave new world but one clinging
fearfully to an old one. Change, where it happened, was not the
result of a deliberate striving for 'progress', and the polity of
pre-Civil War England was not on the point of collapse. Parliaments
were not dominated by two 'sides' in training for a Cup Final at
Naseby, but were groups of people struggling with limited success
to reach agreement.
King James VI and I and his English Parliaments is a posthumously
published work by Conrad Russell, the foremost historian of his
generation working on early Stuart parliaments, and is based on the
Trevelyan lectures which he delivered at the University of
Cambridge. It provides a chronological narrative of the early
English Parliaments of James VI and I, covering in detail the four
sessions of the 1604-1610 Parliament and the Addled Parliament of
1614, with a final chapter looking towards the parliaments of the
1620s. The narrative demonstrates that two problems in particular
dominated these sessions: the financial problems of the Crown, and
the pursuit of a formal Union between England and Scotland. These
were a continuous source of division and disagreement, and neither
was satisfactorily resolved. It also highlights important
subsidiary issues, notably the clashes between James and his judges
over the status of the Common Law and the relatively muted tensions
over religion. Detailed consideration is given throughout to the
character and style of James' kingship. This book can be read
alongside the same author's Parliaments and English Politics,
1621-1629 (Oxford, 1979) and The Fall of the British Monarchies,
1637-1642 (Oxford, 1992) to provide the first continuous narrative
of parliamentary proceedings from the accession of James to the
outbreak of Civil War since the massive work of S. R Gardiner.
Drawing on the much wider range of sources available to modern
historians, in particular the full range of parliamentary diaries,
it offers the most up-to-date analysis we have of conflict between
Crown and Parliament during a turbulent phase of British History.
This is a history of the dramatic events which led to the collapse
of Charles I's authority in England, Scotland, and Ireland in the
1640s. Conrad Russell links incidents in the King's three domains
to construct a narrative account which makes sense of British
history, as well as of the national story of each country. Offering
a new interpretation of events, this study traces the important
role of the Scots in dividing the English, and examines the Irish
rebellion in its contemporary context. Above all, Professor Russell
uncovers the role played by the King himself, and argues that
Charles Stuart was not the passive figure portrayed by so many
historians, but an active protagonist in the political events which
were eventually to lose him not only one crown, but three.
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