Seminar Paper options for the IHR

 

Seminar Paper options

 

Fraud or Prophet: Conrad Russell and the origins of ‘Revisionism’

This paper offers a critical assessment of the evolution of Russell’s views on Parliamentary and political history in the early Stuart period. It examines contemporary historiography on these subjects and argues that Russell’s ‘revisionist’ revolt in 1975 ignored this work: it was already clear that Whig explanations had failed and had been superseded. His claims were based on outdated suppositions from the 1950s. Furthermore, his general analysis rested on explanatory models borrowed from Aylmer and Everitt and offered spectacularly inaccurate detailed accounts of Parliamentary proceedings.

 

 

Reactions to the onset of the Personal Rule and alternative forms of government in Church and State

This paper considers the reaction of Charles I’s principal critics in the east of England to the dissolution of Parliament in 1629 and the start of the period of Personal Rule. It examines their private discussions about the nature and policies of the Caroline regime and how they planned to establish alternative forms of ecclesiastical and secular government across the Atlantic. The possibility of armed resistance to ungodly rule was already being speculated about in these networks. How these ideas were worked out and put partly into practice can be documented from their surviving papers.



(A copy of my offers to the Tudor-Stuart seminar at the IHR.)

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