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Behemoth, or, The Long Parliament
\"Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. It is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the context of his writings in Leviathan and elsewhere on sovereignty and the government of the Church. Although presented as an account of past events, it conceals a vigorous attack on the values of the religious and political establishment of Restoration England. This is the first fully scholarly edition of the work, and the first new edition of the text since 1889. Based on Hobbes's own presentation manuscript, it includes for the first time an accurate transcription of the passages which Hobbes had deleted in the text, and notes made by early readers.\"--BOOK JACKET.
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Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640
Two memories of the early modern House of Commons. The first is in 1601: at the end of his entry for the last day of the last parliament of Elizabeth I, just after he noted the subdued and cool response to the queen as she emerged from the House of Lords, the Elizabethan parliamentary diarist Hayward Townshend wrote that
over the seats in the parliament house are certain holes, some two inches square, in the walls, in which were placed posts to uphold a scaffold round about the House for them to sit on which used the wearing of great
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Clarendon, Tacitism, and the Civil Wars of Europe
Paul Seaward assesses the complex but consistent engagement of Clarendon with Tacitist politics and themes. In the 1620s and 1630s, he does not seem to have shared in the anti-Tiberian politics of Jonson's circle; how his views evolved may be better gauged from his comments on Sarpi and Commynes. The late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century works by Italian historians, including Strada, Bentivoglio, and Davila, form an important intellectual context for Clarendon's writings. Davila was the most Tacitist of these historians, emphasizing the role of factional interest and personal ambition in the politics of rebellion, while Strada and Bentivoglio took as their target the politic interest in the practically possible rather than what was right according to divine and human law. Clarendon's circumstantial and knowing account of the politics of the royal court may be said to be Tacitist in approach; he went further than the Italian historians in exposing the dangers of Tacitist politics, however, showing that secrecy and dissimulation were antithetical to the values that should be central to royal government in England.
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Key Concepts for Parliament in Britain (1640–1800)
Although parliamentary debates have frequently been referred to in political history, the evolution of the British parliament has rarely been analysed from a linguistic point of view. In this chapter, we trace shifts in the use and application of key political concepts relating to Parliament and its role and operation during a period of major transformations. By reviewing the use of the terms ‘sovereignty’, ‘parliament’, ‘representation’, ‘deliberation’, ‘responsibility’ and ‘publicity’ in the surviving records of parliamentary debates from 1640 to 1800 (see Chapter 9 for early modern parliamentary rhetoric and Chapter 14 for procedural issues in the nineteenth century), we
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Whigs, Tories, east Indiamen and rogues: The history of Parliament, 1690-1715
The history of England's Parliament from 1690 to 1715 is presented. It introduces a colorful array of characters.
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