This collection of essays re-examines the historical debates of the early Stuart period from a fresh vantage point: the career of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford. Wentworth played a crucial role in virtually every disputed policy and debate of the 1620s and 1630s. A noted 'country' parliamentarian, then a Privy Councillor and President of the Council in the North, a controversial Lord Deputy of Ireland and a close ally of Archbishop Laud - Wentworth's career encapsulates many of the paradoxes and tensions in early Stuart politics. This collection boasts a series of major articles by some of the most prominent historians currently active in seventeenth-century political history. The essays explore the nature of the political world under Charles I through Wentworth's career, challenging some of the categories and presuppositions which characterise recent work on the pre-Civil War period.
| ISBN | 0521521998 | | Pages | 308 | | ISBN13 | 9780521521994
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 460 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 13 Nov 2003 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | DA396.S8 P65 1996 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 941.062092 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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Introduction: the historical reputation of Thomas Wentworth J. F. Merritt; 1. Phaeton's Chariot: the parliament-men and the Continental Crisis in 1621 Thomas Cogswell; 2. Sir Thomas Wentworth and anti-Spanish sentiment, 1621-1624 Conrad Russell; 3. Wentworth's 'change of sides' in the 1620s Richard Cust; 4. The church triumphant? The emergence of a spiritual Lord Treasurer, 1635-6 Brian Quintrell; 5. Power and communication: Thomas Wentworth and government at a distance during the Personal Rule, 1629-1635 J. F. Merritt; 6. Thomas Wentworth and the political thought of the Personal Rule Anthony Milton; 7. The attempted anglicisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century: an exemplar of 'British history' Nicholas Canny; 8. 'God Bless Your Free Church of Ireland': Wentworth, Laud, Bramhall and the Irish Convocation of 1634 John McCafferty; 9. Strafford, the 'Londonderry Business' and the 'new British history' Jane H. Ohlmeyer; 10. The public context of the trial and execution of Strafford Terence Kilburn and Anthony Milton; 11. Retrospective: Wentworth's political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective Peter Lake.
' ... a high-quality collection, essential reading for anyone who wishes to examine the cutting edge of early Stuart historiography'. History ' ... the volume is ... a very useful addition to the burgeoning literature on what has been called the 'new British history'. Historical Journal
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