BURGESS, Glenn. Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution

Hardback, with dustwrapper. There is a previous owner's name and date written neatly inside but otherwise the book remains in almost as new condition.

[From the cover] "Burgess contends that the common understanding of seventeenth-century English politics is oversimplified and inaccurate. The long accepted standard view is that the gradual polarization of Court and Parliament during the reigns of James I and Charles I reflected the split between absolutists (who upheld the divine right of the monarchy to rule) and constitutionalists (who resisted tyranny by insisiting the monarch was subject to law) and resulted inevitably in civil war. Yet, Burgress argues, the very terms that have been used to understand the period are misleading: there were almost no genuine absolutist thinkiers in England before the Civil War, and the ‘constitutionaliam’ of common lawyers was a very different notion from current understanding of that term"

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