Kevin Sharpe reassesses the role that ideology, rhetoric and intellectual discussion played in the upheavals of seventeenth-century England.

In recent years new schools of historiography and criticism have recast the political and cultural histories of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. However, f

This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England. The enduring controversy about the nature of parlia

This 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.