Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England

Millstone, Noah

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“…Such developments sparked much debate on the nature of sovereignty among contemporaries (Dean, 1996). At the same time, the rise of 'publicity' , epitomized by the rapid spread of news and information on public affairs via both scribal networks and print, meant that ordinary people became more actively engaged with the debates pertaining to their political assemblies (Millstone, 2016).…”

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Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

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In this essay, we call for a new approach to representative assemblies of early modern Europe and beyond. While there are vast national historiographies on their legal constitutional structure, little effort has been made to reconstruct the cultural and transnational dimension of such bodies, a phenomenon we describe as 'parliamentary culture'. We argue that there is much to be gained from an investigation of the culture surrounding these bodies-how they influenced and shaped political behaviour and were shaped by it, and how they were embedded into the thought of their time and period-and from seeing them as part of a set of common European traditions of political negotiation and consent. We suggest an interdisciplinary and collaborative agenda for that investigation that might lead beyond Europe too, into some of its colonies, where Europeans also encountered other traditions of negotiated discussion and agreement.

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Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

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“…Two veterans of the History of Parliament Trust, Kyle (2012) and Peacey (2013), have each argued that the place of Other recent work on political culture and practice in early modern England describes changes for which the capital was crucial. The circulation of political information, whether through rumor, manuscript, or print, and the kinds of political behaviors that this facilitated, shows how London's position as both the hub of England's communication network and the site of government, court, archives, and much of the political elite, all conditioned how news was made, circulated, and discussed (Coast, 2014;Hunt, 2014;McGee, 2015;Millstone, 2011Millstone, , 2016. Recent work also shows that during the late-Stuart period London remained crucial to key political and religious changes.…”

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London and England's early modernity: A review of recent scholarship

Cavert

2018

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A review of the historical literature on London during the early modern period (ca. 1500–1800) published between 2010 and 2017, focusing on themes of modernization and London's role in associated changes. London's central contribution to processes of modernization was once a historiographical commonplace, but recent work has avoided such narratives in its discussions of social relations, crime and policing, gender roles, cosmopolitanism and global trade, and urban and suburban spaces and environments. By contrast, studies that have stressed such processes, in particular work describing political culture and practice as well as sexual behaviors, have chosen not to stress London's importance, despite its prominent place in their stories.

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“…61 Recent, important scholarship has illuminated the production and reception of documents concerning early 17th-century parliaments during this period, but has said relatively little about Elizabethan material. 62 This is surprising given that, against a backdrop of increasing criticism of her successors, much has been written on how Elizabeth's reign was frequently portrayed in early Stuart England as a model of good governance in which the queen ruled with the love of her parliaments. 63 How the production and circulation of Elizabethan parliamentary diaries and journals contributed to this image has received little attention, however, as has their role in emphasizing parliament's status as a permanent member of the body politic at the very moment its future seemed endangered.…”

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‘But Private Notes for My Own Memory’? Parliamentary Diaries, Parliamentary History and the Politics of Information in Early Stuart England^*

Baker

2020

Parliamentary History

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Early modern parliamentary diaries are a standard source for historians, and have long been used as a supplement to the official journals in reconstructions of debates and business at Westminster. This article adopts a contrasting approach and examines what diaries – viewed as sources in their own right – reveal about parliament and its members, methods of contemporary note‐taking, and the circulation and readership of political information. It begins with a review of the evidence for why, how, and to what ends members kept parliamentary diaries, before exploring the extent of their dissemination in early Stuart England. While recent literature has emphasized the circulation of materials relating to Jacobean and especially Caroline parliaments during the early 17th century, the article recovers the existence of a simultaneous interest in the parliamentary proceedings of the Elizabethan era. At a time when the future of parliament seemed uncertain, it argues that the evident market for, and readership of, Elizabethan material reflects contemporaries’ increasing recognition of parliament's significance within the English state and their changing attitudes towards parliamentary history. Moreover, while Elizabethan parliamentary diaries and journals seemingly reinforced memories of a past ‘golden age’ of parliamentary rule, the article contends that contemporaries’ production, dissemination, and reading of that material was a conscious form of political action in response to the constitutional crisis of their day.

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Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England

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Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

Early modern parliamentary studies: Overview and new perspectives

London and England's early modernity: A review of recent scholarship

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