The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I: An Institutional Study

by Michael A.R. Graves

Book Overview

In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of parliamentary history. This volume makes amends for the omission. It is the first systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal assistants, who contributed so much to its efficiency as a legislative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521086094
• ISBN13: 9780521086097
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"