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Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601 (2nd Ed.)
Seminar Studies Series
Authors: Graves Michael A.R., Lockyer Roger
Language: English
Subject for Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601:
Keywords
class; henry; clerk; vii; council; governing; privy; nether; tudor; settlement; Richard III; Sir Edward Hoby; National Biography; William Fitzwilliam; Viscount Montagu; Sir Thomas Gargrave; Episodic Concentration; Crown's Financial Position; Nether House; Elizabethan Parliaments; Henry VIII's Government; Long Term Evolutionary Development; ABC Bill; Sixteenth Century Government; Tudor Parliaments; Henry VII's Reign; Edward's Regency; Early Stuart Historians; Edward Ill's Reign; Early Tudor Parliaments; Isolationist Foreign Policy; Parliamentary Boroughs; Francis Knollys; Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum; Elizabethan Settlement
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Michael Graves provides a clear summary of conflicting interpretations of Elizabethan parliaments and presents a new perspective, striking a balance between business and politics.
Part One: Background. 1. Pre-Tudor Parliaments. 2. Pre-Reformation Parliaments, 1485 - 1529. 3. The Parliaments of the Reformation, 1529-58. Part Two 4. Parliament's Place in 1558-9. 5. Membership and Attendance. 6. The Political History of Elizabethan Parliaments. 7. The Business Record of Elizabethan Parliaments.
Part Three:Assessment. 8. Conclusion. Part Four: Documents. Elizabethan Parliaments. Biblography. Index.
- provides an assessment of revisionism
- substantially revised to take account of recent literature - including much new work on patronage, parliamentary management and the Men of Business (especially by the author himself)
- contains a selection of documents incuding new sources which illustrate the important political, organisational and functional aspects of parliament
- M R Graves is an eminent Tudor historian. He is the author of Early Tudor Parliaments also in 'Seminar Studies' and The Tudor Parliaments: Crown, Lords and Commons 1485-1603 in 'Studies in Modern History' published by Longman
