Paul Cavill is a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke CollegeAlexandra Gajda is Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College

• Introduction – Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill 1. Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament – Paul Cavill 2. ‘The consent of the body of the whole realme’: Edward Hall’s parliamentary history – Scott Lucas 3. The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament – Alexandra Gajda4. Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England – Paulina Kewes5. Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament – Ian W. Archer 6. The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments – Simon Healy7. The politic history of early Stuart parliaments – Noah Millstone 8. ‘That memorable parliament’: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–42 – Jason Peacey 9. Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640 – Paul Seaward 10. Afterword – Peter LakeIndex

'No book can solve all our problems in understanding the role of the past in early modern politics. But this volume makes a significant contribution to that project by its combination of wide argument and fine-grained detail.'Parliamentary History

Paul Cavill is a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke CollegeAlexandra Gajda is Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College

• Introduction – Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill 1. Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament – Paul Cavill 2. ‘The consent of the body of the whole realme’: Edward Hall’s parliamentary history – Scott Lucas 3. The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament – Alexandra Gajda4. Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England – Paulina Kewes5. Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament – Ian W. Archer 6. The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments – Simon Healy7. The politic history of early Stuart parliaments – Noah Millstone 8. ‘That memorable parliament’: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–42 – Jason Peacey 9. Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640 – Paul Seaward 10. Afterword – Peter LakeIndex

'No book can solve all our problems in understanding the role of the past in early modern politics. But this volume makes a significant contribution to that project by its combination of wide argument and fine-grained detail.'Parliamentary History

Paul Cavill is a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke CollegeAlexandra Gajda is Associate Professor in History at the University of Oxford and John Walsh Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College

• Introduction – Alexandra Gajda and Paul Cavill 1. Polydore Vergil and the first English parliament – Paul Cavill 2. ‘The consent of the body of the whole realme’: Edward Hall’s parliamentary history – Scott Lucas 3. The Elizabethan Church and the antiquity of parliament – Alexandra Gajda4. Parliament and the principle of elective succession in Elizabethan England – Paulina Kewes5. Elizabethan chroniclers and parliament – Ian W. Archer 6. The significance (and insignificance) of precedent in early Stuart parliaments – Simon Healy7. The politic history of early Stuart parliaments – Noah Millstone 8. ‘That memorable parliament’: medieval history in parliamentarian polemic, 1641–42 – Jason Peacey 9. Institutional memory and contemporary history in the House of Commons, 1547–1640 – Paul Seaward 10. Afterword – Peter LakeIndex

'No book can solve all our problems in understanding the role of the past in early modern politics. But this volume makes a significant contribution to that project by its combination of wide argument and fine-grained detail.'Parliamentary History