Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments

Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England (2012) and has edited three books, Parliament, Politics and Elections (2001), Parliament at Work (with Jason Peacey, 2002) and Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (2008). He has held fellowships from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and Hughes Hall, Cambridge University. He is currently the editor of The Oxford Works of Francis Bacon, Vol VII: Legal and Political Writings 1613-1626.

• Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction Chris R. Kyle 2. Anticlericalism and the Early Tudor ParliamentP.R. Cavill 3. Staging the Settlement: Shekhar Kapur and the Parliament of 1559 David Dean 4. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Managing with the Men-of-Business Norman Jones 5. Foreign Policy and the Parliament of 1576 Glyn Parry 6. The Earl of Essex and Elizabethan Parliaments Paul E.J. Hammer 7. The Development of Parliamentary Privilege, 1604–29 Paul M. Hunneyball 8. ‘Wrangling Lawyers’: Proclamations and the Management of the English Parliament of 1621 Chris R. Kyle 9. Preaching and English Parliaments in the 1620s Lori Anne Ferrell 10. The Street Theatre of State: The Ceremonial Opening of Parliament, 1603–60 Jason Peacey Index