One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a …
King Charles I twice mobilised England in an attempt to enforce religious uniformity in Scotland, and both times he failed. The result was the resurgence of Parliament as partner in …
VA Mau, I Starodububrovskaya… - 2001 - books.google.com
Providing a challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia, this volume examines the causes, processes, and consequences of Russia's political …
KM Brown - The Historical Journal, 1993 - cambridge.org
This article seeks to analyse the extent to which the Scottish aristocracy was anglicized in the years between the union of the crowns and the national covenant. The question is one …
M Kishlansky - Past & Present, 2005 - academic.oup.com
There is no event in the history of the British monarchy more studied than the downfall of Charles I. It riveted the attention of contemporaries and has fascinated historians ever since …
The late feudal aristocracy was obliged to abandon old traditions and acquire many new skills. It had to shed military exercise of private violence, social patterns of vassal loyalty …
A Blakeway - The Economic History Review, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This article contributes to the emerging belief among early modern economic historians that sixteenth‐century inflation was primarily caused by monetary factors. The S cottish case …
Students of early Stuart politics face a bewildering array of books and articles published in recent years. The purpose of the present book is to guide readers through this maze of …
D Watt - Scottish Historical Review, 2006 - euppublishing.com
In the inflationary economic conditions of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Highland chiefs borrowed extensively. Indebtedness was caused by increasing expenditure …