Michael Questier recently left East London to take up a senior research fellowship in the department of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

• Preface 1: The Elizabethan Settlement, the Issue of the Royal Succession, and the Emergence of Religious Dissent, c. 1558-1571 2: Puritans, Catholics, and Dynastic Crises, 1571-1582 3: Protestant Foreign Policy and the Coming of War, 1582-1593 4: European Politics and the Stuart Succession in England, 1593-1603 5: The Accession of James Stuart and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1603-1610 6: The Jacobean Polity and the Failure of Via Media Politics, 1611-1620 7: Dynastic Marriage Diplomacy, Parliamentary Conflict, Peace and War, 1621-1629 Conclusion: Into the Personal Rule of Charles I

Michael Questier's new book is proudly old-fashioned, offering a narrative history of dynastic politics-the business of monarchical succession, royal marriages, and intradynastic alliance-in the Elizabethan,Marian, Jacobean, and early Caroline Britannic Isles. In other ways, the book is defiantly original.

Michael Questier recently left East London to take up a senior research fellowship in the department of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

• Preface 1: The Elizabethan Settlement, the Issue of the Royal Succession, and the Emergence of Religious Dissent, c. 1558-1571 2: Puritans, Catholics, and Dynastic Crises, 1571-1582 3: Protestant Foreign Policy and the Coming of War, 1582-1593 4: European Politics and the Stuart Succession in England, 1593-1603 5: The Accession of James Stuart and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1603-1610 6: The Jacobean Polity and the Failure of Via Media Politics, 1611-1620 7: Dynastic Marriage Diplomacy, Parliamentary Conflict, Peace and War, 1621-1629 Conclusion: Into the Personal Rule of Charles I

Michael Questier's new book is proudly old-fashioned, offering a narrative history of dynastic politics-the business of monarchical succession, royal marriages, and intradynastic alliance-in the Elizabethan,Marian, Jacobean, and early Caroline Britannic Isles. In other ways, the book is defiantly original.

Michael Questier recently left East London to take up a senior research fellowship in the department of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

• Preface 1: The Elizabethan Settlement, the Issue of the Royal Succession, and the Emergence of Religious Dissent, c. 1558-1571 2: Puritans, Catholics, and Dynastic Crises, 1571-1582 3: Protestant Foreign Policy and the Coming of War, 1582-1593 4: European Politics and the Stuart Succession in England, 1593-1603 5: The Accession of James Stuart and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1603-1610 6: The Jacobean Polity and the Failure of Via Media Politics, 1611-1620 7: Dynastic Marriage Diplomacy, Parliamentary Conflict, Peace and War, 1621-1629 Conclusion: Into the Personal Rule of Charles I

Michael Questier's new book is proudly old-fashioned, offering a narrative history of dynastic politics-the business of monarchical succession, royal marriages, and intradynastic alliance-in the Elizabethan,Marian, Jacobean, and early Caroline Britannic Isles. In other ways, the book is defiantly original.