Research Catalog

Title

The politics of counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707 / edited by Jacqueline Rose.

Publication

• Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Rose, Jacqueline, 1982-
• British Academy, issuing body.

Description

ix, 303 pages : illustration; 24 cm

Summary

Counsel was a fundamental element of the theoretical framework and practical workings of medieval and early modern government. Good rule was to be ensured by governors hearing wise advisers. This process of counsel assumed particular importance in England and Scotland between the 14th and 17th centuries because of the close adherence to ideas of the common good, commonweal, and community in this period. Yet, major changes in who gave counsel and how it operated were emerging. This volume identifies both the patterns and the moments of change while also recognising continuities. It examines counsel set in the context of Anglo-Scottish warfare, unions of the two nations, the Reformations, and early colonising ventures, as well as in the contingent circumstances of individual reigns and long-term evolutions in the nature of government. Examining counsel as ubiquitous yet archivally elusive, this volume uses government records, pamphlets, plays, poetry, histories, and oaths to establish a new framework for understanding advice. As it shows, a widespread belief in good counsel masked fundamental tensions between accountability and secrecy, inclusive representation and political cohesiveness, and between upholding and restraining sovereign authority.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 204

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 204.

Subject

• 1057-1707
• Politics and government
• Great Britain > History > 1066-1687
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1066-1485
• Scotland > History > 1057-1603
• Scotland > Politics and government > 1371-1707
• Great Britain
• Scotland

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- The problem of political counsel in Medieval and early modern England and Scotland / Jacqueline Rose -- "lele consial for the comoun profite:" kings, guardians and councils in the Scottish kingdom, c.1250-1450 / Michael Brown -- Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.1540 / John Watts -- Counsel and conscience in Lancastrian England / Jeremy Catto -- Locality, polity and the politics of counsel: royal and urban councils in England, 1420-1429 / Eliza Hartrich -- "Perverst counsale?" Rebellion, satire and the politics of advice in fifteenth-century Scotland / Claire Hawes -- Councils, counsel and consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation / Richard Rex -- Elizabeth I and counsel / Susan Doran -- "Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up:" kingship, counsel and early Elizabethan drama / Paulina Kewes -- Consultation, counsel and the "early Stuart period" in Scotland / Alan R. MacDonald -- Councils, providence and political legitimacy in early Virginia / Alexander Haskell -- Counsel and covenant: aristocratic conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution / Roger A. Mason -- Sir Edward Hyde and the problem of counsel in mid-seventeenth-century Royalist thought / Jacqueline Rose -- Councils, counsel and the seventeenth-century composite state / Jacqueline Rose -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 17-3216

ISBN

• 9780197266038
• 0197266037

OCLC

955313260

Title

The politics of counsel in England and Scotland, 1286-1707 / edited by Jacqueline Rose.

Publisher

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 204

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 204.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1057-1707

Added Author

Rose, Jacqueline, 1982- author, editor.

British Academy, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-3216