In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of parliamentary history. This volume makes amends for the omission. It is the first systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal assistants, who contributed so much to its efficiency as a legislative machine, analyses its procedures and assesses its legislative record in the mid-Tudor parliaments. In the process it also sets the Edwardian and Marian Commons in their right perspective. The Lords emerges as a vital party in the legislative process. Until 1553-5 its performance was, more often than not, superior to that of the Commons. But then it reneged on its political responsibilities and resisted the Crown in a rare act of sabotage - the most effective of the sixteenth century. It did not recover.
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評分都鐸中期無疑是一個政治極端動蕩的時代。未成年的愛德華六世政府在大貴族勢力的控製下掀起瞭極端的宗教改革,英格蘭首位女王瑪麗一世又朝著另一個方嚮疾馳。作為權力核心的上議院,在這場狂風驟雨般的政治動蕩中仍然錶現齣堅韌的生命力,但曆史拋棄瞭他們。
評分都鐸中期無疑是一個政治極端動蕩的時代。未成年的愛德華六世政府在大貴族勢力的控製下掀起瞭極端的宗教改革,英格蘭首位女王瑪麗一世又朝著另一個方嚮疾馳。作為權力核心的上議院,在這場狂風驟雨般的政治動蕩中仍然錶現齣堅韌的生命力,但曆史拋棄瞭他們。
評分都鐸中期無疑是一個政治極端動蕩的時代。未成年的愛德華六世政府在大貴族勢力的控製下掀起瞭極端的宗教改革,英格蘭首位女王瑪麗一世又朝著另一個方嚮疾馳。作為權力核心的上議院,在這場狂風驟雨般的政治動蕩中仍然錶現齣堅韌的生命力,但曆史拋棄瞭他們。
The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載