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Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of
the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central
role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to
the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians
have struggled to get him into perspective, veering between
outright condemnation and measured sympathy. Richard Cust shows
that Charles I was not 'unfit to be a king', emphasising his
strengths as a party leader and conviction politician, but
concludes that, none the less, his prejudices and attitudes, and
his mishandling of political crises did much to bring about a civil
war in Britain. He argues that ultimately, after the war, Charles
pushed his enemies into a position where they had little choice but
to execute him.
This important collection of essays, based on extensive original
research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses
of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term
ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the
civil war.
This important collection of essays, based on extensive original
research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses
of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term
ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the
civil war.
This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the
dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores
gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could
be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the
county's governing elite and puritan religious establishment
responded to highly polarising interventions by the central
government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles
I's Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and
detailed analysis of petitioning movements and side-taking in
Cheshire in 1641-2. An important contribution to understanding the
local origins and outbreak of civil war in England, the book will
be of interest to all students and scholars studying the English
revolution. -- .
This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English
aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of
the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the
effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to
promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers
reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political
nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long
Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out
to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal
authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and
then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight
parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a
broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds
to stabilise the social order.
Revisionism has had a far-reaching impact upon the history of politics and religion in early Stuart Britain. These collected essays assess revisionism and address a series of themes arising out of recent debates on the causes of the English Civil War. Topics covered include the character of Charles I's kingship; the place of Parliament in the political system; the divisive legacy of the English Reformation; and the problems posed by trying to unite England with Scotland and Ireland.
This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English
aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of
the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the
effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to
promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers
reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political
nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long
Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out
to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal
authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and
then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight
parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a
broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds
to stabilise the social order.
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.
Revisionism has had a far-reaching impact upon the history of
politics and religion in early Stuart Britain. The essays collected
here were originally published in 2002, and set out to assess this
impact and develop further some of the central themes highlighted
in the work of the historian Conrad Russell, and address a series
of themes arising out of recent debates on the causes of the
English Civil War. The subject-matter ranges from high-political
narrative to the study of rumour, gossip, and print culture. Topics
covered include the character of Charles I's kingship, the place of
Parliament in the political system, the divisive legacy of the
English Reformation, and the problems posed by trying to unite
England with Scotland and Ireland. The collection will interest
readers concerned with the political and religious history, and
also the literature, of early seventeenth-century Britain.
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