The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641

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 0521560411   Pages 307 ISBN13 9780521560412 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 576 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 07 Mar 1996   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress DA396.S8 P65 1996   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 942.062092   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of contributors
		Acknowledgements
		List of abbreviations
		Note
		Introduction. The historical reputation of Thomas Wentworth by J. F. Merritt		1
1		Phaeton's chariot: The Parliament-men and the continental crisis in 1621 by Thomas Cogswell		24
2		Sir Thomas Wentworth and anti-Spanish sentiment, 1621-1624 by Conrad Russell		47
3		Wentworth's 'change of sides' in the 1620s by Richard Cust		63
4		The Church triumphant? The emergence of a spiritual Lord Treasurer, 1635-1636 by Brian Quintrell		81
5		Power and communication: Thomas Wentworth and government at a distance during the Personal Rule, 1629-1635 by J. F. Merritt		109
6		Thomas Wentworth and the political thought of the Personal Rule by Anthony Milton		133
7		The attempted Anglicisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century: An exemplar of 'British History' by Nicholas Canny		157
8		'God bless your free Church of Ireland': Wentworth, Laud, Bramhall and the Irish Convocation of 1634 by John McCafferty		187
9		Strafford, the 'Londonderry Business' and the 'New British History' by Jane H. Ohlmeyer		209
10		The public context of the trial and execution of Strafford by Terence Kilburn and Anthony Milton		230
11		Retrospective: Wentworth's political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective by Peter Lake		252
		Index		284

' ... 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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