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Book The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs

Download or read book The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs written by May McKisack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published at 1932, this book, based on long research in municipal and borough records, attempts to correlate some of the evidence bearing on the representation of the towns of Medieval England, and to discover the answers to such basic questions as how the citizens were elected, paid, and taxed, what their function in parliament was, and what type of men they were. It is an essential study for all those concerned with the development of the English Parliamentary System.

Book A History of Parliament

Download or read book A History of Parliament written by Ronald Butt and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative framework of political history to describe the way parliament began and evolved through the Middle Ages.This volume is primarily concerned with the growth of parliamentary politics and power. It describes parliament's involvement in the depositions of Edward II and Richard II.

Book English Parliament in the Middle Ages

Download or read book English Parliament in the Middle Ages written by H. G. Richardson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1981-07-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Parliament in the Middle Ages is a collection of 26 essays written by historians H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles between 1925 and 1967. These essays - some collaborative, and some written individually by Richardson and Sayles - illuminate various aspects of English parliamentary history, beginning with the origins of parliament. Brought together with a foreword and additional notes by G. O. Sayles, this volume provides a comprehensive reference point for all scholars interested in medieval bureaucracy and the history of law.

Book Modernizing England s Past

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Bentley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-12
  • ISBN : 1139447793
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Modernizing England s Past written by Michael Bentley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. Professor Bentley does not follow those who deride modernism as 'positivist' or 'empiricist' but instead shows how it set in train brilliant new styles of investigation that transformed how historians understood the English past. But he shows how these strengths were eventually outweighed by inherent confusions and misapprehensions that threatened to kill the very subject that the modernists had intended to sustain.

Book Crown  Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England

Download or read book Crown Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England written by A. R. Myers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1985-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. R. Myers's research in the history of late medieval England spanned more than forty years. Throughout his academic career 15th-century England, especially the documentary remnants of its administration, held his attention consistently though not exclusively. The relevant studies, fruits of his research in this field which were originally published in periodicals published over five decades, have here been brought together. As a corpus they provide a collection of important documents related to the crown, the royal household and parliament. Complete with a critical introduction by R. B. Dobson, this is the essential collection of the works of an influential historian of early modern England.

Book Inventing the People  The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Download or read book Inventing the People The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America written by Edmund S. Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty—the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"—has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

Book Parliamentary Elections  Representation and the Law

Download or read book Parliamentary Elections Representation and the Law written by Caroline Morris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parliamentary elections are the foundation of the democratic State, providing legitimacy to government and an opportunity for citizens to participate in the democratic process. But despite the crucial role of elections in government and society, the law governing them is fragmented, both conceptually and in terms of the legal framework. This book examines each stage of the electoral process from the perspective of the candidate seeking to become an MP: eligibility and qualification, the candidate selection process, nominations, disputed elections and then, lastly, disqualification or exit from the House of Commons. Each stage of the process is considered in light of developments in political practice and human rights jurisprudence, and an argument is made for the rethinking and reform of the law of parliamentary candidacy and membership. The book takes into account the reforms ushered in by the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009, and also looks to the new electoral era that may eventuate under the Liberal Democrat-Conservative Coalition Government.

Book History of Political Ideas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780826211545
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book History of Political Ideas written by Eric Voegelin and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the sixteenth century, Religion and the Rise of Modernity resumes the analysis of the "great confusion" introduced in Volume IV of History of Political Ideas. Encompassing a vast range of events ignited by Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, this period is one of controversy, revolution, and partiality. Despite the era's fragmentation and complexity, Voegelin's insightful analysis clarifies its significance and suggests the lines of change converging at a point in the future: the medieval Christian understanding of a divinely created closed cosmos was being replaced by a distinctly modern form of human consciousness that posits man as the proper origin of meaning in the universe. Analyzing the most significant features of the great confusion, Voegelin examines a vast range of thought and issues of the age. From the more obvious thinkers to those less frequently studied, this volume features such figures as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, and Giordano Bruno. Devoting a considerable amount of attention to Jean Bodin, Voegelin presents him as a prophet of a new, true religion amid the civilizational disorder of the post-Christian era. Focusing on such traditional themes as monarchy, just war theory, and the philosophy of law, this volume also investigates issues within astrology, cosmology, and mathematics. Religion and the Rise of Modernity is a valuable work of scholarship not only because of its treatment of individual thinkers and doctrines influential in the sixteenth century and beyond but also because of its close examination of those experiences that formed the modern outlook.

Book Historical Studies of the English Parliament

Download or read book Historical Studies of the English Parliament written by E. B. Fryde and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain

Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.

Book Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference  1985

Download or read book Proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne Conference 1985 written by Peter R. Coss and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Set to become an indispensible series for anyone who wishes to keep abreast of recent work in the field'. WELSH HISTORY REVIEW

Book The History of the English Electoral Law in the Middle Ages

Download or read book The History of the English Electoral Law in the Middle Ages written by Ludwig Riess and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval York

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. M. Palliser
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2014-01-23
  • ISBN : 0191667579
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Medieval York written by D. M. Palliser and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval York provides a comprehensive history of what is now considered England's most famous surviving medieval city, covering nearly a thousand years. The volume examines York from its post-Roman revival as a town (c. 600) to the major changes of the 1530s and 1540s, which in many ways brought an end to the Middle Ages in England. York was one of the leading English towns after London, and in status almost always the 'second city'. Much research and publication has been carried out on various aspects of medieval York, but this volume seeks to cover the field in its entirety. David Palliser offers an up-to-date and broad-based account of the city by employing the evidence of written documents, archaeology (especially on the rich results of recent city centre excavations), urban morphology, numismatics, art, architecture, and literature. Special attention is paid to the city's religious drama and its wealth of surviving stained glass. The story of Medieval York is set in a wide context to make comparisons with other English and Continental towns, to establish how far York's story was distinctive or was typical of other English towns which have been less fortunate in the survival of their medieval fabric. It is essential reading for anyone interested in York's past and in its rich heritage of medieval churches, guildhalls, houses, streets, and city walls - the most complete medieval circuit in England.

Book The Origins of the English Parliament  924 1327

Download or read book The Origins of the English Parliament 924 1327 written by J. R. Maddicott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial study of the evolution of the English parliament from its earliest origins in the late Anglo-Saxon period through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons which sanctioned the deposition of Edward II in 1327.

Book The Incorporation of Boroughs

Download or read book The Incorporation of Boroughs written by Martin Weinbaum and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1937 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Middle Ages in Recent Historical Thought  Selected Topics

Download or read book The Middle Ages in Recent Historical Thought Selected Topics written by Bryce Dale Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: