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Book SynopsisPolitical advice or counsel was fundamental to theory and practice in medieval and early modern government. This book charts continuity and change as counsel both influenced and was affected by warfare, British unions, and the Reformations, as well as how it functioned in important reigns such as those of James III, Elizabeth I, and Charles I.
Trade ReviewThe book has been well planned, with thirteen substantive chapters and a very long and valuable introduction. There is extensive cross-referencing, and evidence of discussion among contributors at the workshops that preceded the book. This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context. * Julian Goodare, History *
this is a superbly-edited collection that makes an excellent addition to the scholarship on counsel in medieval and early modern England and Scotland * Aidan Norrie, The University of Warwick, Parergon *
a valuable selection of work on the interlinking thoughts on, and mediums of, counsel that breaks several conceptual and chronological boundaries and one that should form an indispensable resource for those interested in the theories, practices and problems of authority in medieval and early modern Britain. * Matthew Raven, Reviews in History *
This book thus gives political historians much to ponder. It is particularly thought-provoking to see counsel placed, as it often is here, in a broader context. * Julian Goodare, History *
Table of Contents1: JACQUELINE ROSE: The Problem of Political Counsel in Medieval and Early Modern England and Scotland 2: MICHAEL BROWN: 'Lele consail for the comoun profite': Kings, Guardians and Councils in the Scottish Kingdom, c.1250-1450 3: JOHN WATTS: Counsel and the King's Council in England, c.1340-c.1540 4: JEREMY CATTO: Counsel and Conscience in Lancastrian England 5: ELIZA HARTRICH: Locality, Polity and the Politics of Counsel: Royal and Urban Councils in England, 1420-1429 6: CLAIRE HAWES: 'Perverst counsale'? Rebellion, Satire and the Politics of Advice in Fifteenth-Century Scotland 7: RICHARD REX: Councils, Counsel and Consensus in Henry VIII's Reformation 8: SUSAN DORAN: Elizabeth I and Counsel 9: PAULINA KEWES: 'Jerusalem thou dydst promise to buylde up': Kingship, Counsel and Early Elizabethan Drama 10: ALAN R. MACDONALD: Consultation, Counsel and the 'Early Stuart Period' in Scotland 11: ALEXANDER HASKELL: Councils, Providence and Political Legitimacy in Early Virginia 12: ROGER A. MASON: Counsel and Covenant: Aristocratic Conciliarism and the Scottish Revolution 13: JACQUELINE ROSE: Sir Edward Hyde and the Problem of Counsel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Royalist Thought 14: JACQUELINE ROSE: Councils, Counsel and the Seventeenth-Century Composite State
