Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Parliament vs
Monarch Debate
- Nature of historical research
- Crucial nature of the role of parliament in historical developments
- Parliament was the main arena in which
local and national interests were raised
- Revisionism
- Wisdom that parliament was winning the
initative at the expense of the crown was coming
under scrutiny
- Clashes between James and his
parliament were more apparent than real
- No real opposition to the crown, and parliament
was an EVENT not an INSTITUTION
- The Notestein Thesis
- Parliament was "winning the
initiative" at the expense of the crown
- A result of poor parliamentary management,
an opposition to the crown was developing
- Crown failed to exploit various
devices to control the house
- The Curse of Historical Hindsight
- Cause of the civil war
- Under James the political, social, religious
and economic problems were aggravated
- Charles I was the main cause of the civil war
- Crown-Parliamentary
relations were deteriorating
- From the accession of James
to a "high road to civil war"