The Politics of Counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707

NOTE EDITORE

Counsel was a fundamental element of the theoretical framework and practical workings of medieval and early modern government. Good rule was to be ensured by governors hearing wise advisers. This process of counsel assumed particular importance in England and Scotland between the 14th and 17th centuries because of the close adherence to ideas of the common good, commonwealth, and community in this period. Yet this era saw major changes in who gave counsel and how it operated. This volume identifies both patterns and moments of change while also recognising continuities. It examines counsel in the context of Anglo-Scottish warfare and unions, the Reformations, and early colonising ventures, as well as in the contingent circumstances of individual reigns and long-term evolutions in the nature of government. Depicting counsel as ubiquitous yet archivally elusive, this volume uses government records, pamphlets, plays, poetry, histories, and oaths to establish a new framework for understanding advice. As it shows, a widespread belief in good counsel masked fundamental tensions between accountability and secrecy, inclusive representation and political cohesiveness, and between upholding and restraining sovereign authority.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Problem of Political Counsel in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland2 - 'Lele consail for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom, c.1250-14503 - Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.15404 - Counsel and Conscience in Lancastrian England5 - Locality, Polity and the Politics of Counsel: Royal and Urban Councils in England, 1420-14296 - 'Perverst counsale'? Rebellion, Satire and the Politics of Advice in Fifteenth-Century Scotland7 - Councils, Counsel and Consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation8 - Elizabeth I and Counsel9 - 'Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up': Kingship, Counsel and Early Elizabethan Drama10 - Consultation, Counsel and the 'Early Stuart Period' in Scotland11 - Councils, Providence and Political Legitimacy in Early Virginia12 - Counsel and Covenant: Aristocratic Conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution13 - Sir Edward Hyde and the Problem of Counsel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Royalist Thought14 - Councils, Counsel and the Seventeenth-Century Composite State

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197266038
• Collana: Proceedings of the British Academy
• Dimensioni: 242 x 25.0 x 168 mm Ø 686 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 1 frontispiece (b&w)
• Pagine Arabe: 350