The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 16211641
Cambridge University Press
Edition: First Edition, 3/7/1996
EAN 9780521560412, ISBN10: 0521560411
Hardcover, 307 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
This collection of essays re-examines the historical debates of the early Stuart period from a fresh vantage point: the career of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford. Wentworth played a crucial role in virtually every disputed policy and debate of the 1620s and 1630s. A noted 'country' parliamentarian, then a Privy Councillor and President of the Council in the North, a controversial Lord Deputy of Ireland and a close ally of Archbishop Laud - Wentworth's career encapsulates many of the paradoxes and tensions in early Stuart politics. This collection boasts a series of major articles by some of the most prominent historians currently active in seventeenth-century political history. The essays explore the nature of the political world under Charles I through Wentworth's career, challenging some of the categories and presuppositions which characterise recent work on the pre-Civil War period.
Introduction
the historical reputation of Thomas Wentworth J. F. Merritt
1. Phaeton's Chariot
the parliament-men and the Continental Crisis in 1621 Thomas Cogswell
2. Sir Thomas Wentworth and anti-Spanish sentiment, 1621–4 Conrad Russell
3. Wentworth's 'change of sides' in the 1620s Richard Cust
4. The church triumphant? The emergence of a spiritual Lord Treasurer, 1635–6 Brian Quintrell
5. Power and communication
Thomas Wentworth and government at a distance during the Personal Rule, 1629–35 J. F. Merritt
6. Thomas Wentworth and the political thought of the Personal Rule Anthony Milton
7. The attempted anglicisation of Ireland in the seventeenth century
an exemplar of 'British history' Nicholas Canny
8. 'God Bless Your Free Church of Ireland'
Wentworth, Laud, Bramhall and the Irish Convocation of 1634 John McCafferty
9. Strafford, the 'Londonderry Business' and the 'new British history' Jane H. Ohlmeyer
10. The public context of the trial and execution of Strafford Terence Kilburn and Anthony Milton
11. Retrospective
Wentworth's political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective Peter Lake.