Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution

by Glenn Burgess

Book Overview

In this ambitious reinterpretation of the early Stuart period in England, Glenn Burgess contends that the common understanding of seventeenth-century English politics is oversimplified and inaccurate. The long-accepted standard view holds that gradual polarization between the Court and Parliament during the reigns of James I and Charles I reflected the split between absolutists--who upheld the divine right of monarchy to rule--and constitutionalists--who...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300217285
• ISBN13: 9780300217285
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"