Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments: Essays in Memory of Michael Graves

Michael Graves has done much to define ideas of management in TudorParliaments. From the role of the Privy Council to parliamentary men–of–business and the career of Thomas Norton,Graves has opened up new avenues that relay the importance ofsystematic, planned management of parliamentary sessions. Managing Tudor and Stuart Parliaments takes Graves work as a springboard for discussion that then moves well beyondthe narrow confines of the Palace of Westminster chambers, toexamine how sermons, state openings, patrons, procedure, foreignpolicy and individuals were all deployed by the government andmembers of the Lords and Commons to better manage Parliamentsthroughout the Tudor and early Stuart period.

Bringing together essays from nine established parliamentaryscholars, the volume offers new insights and reflections onmanagement and the importance of Parliaments to the effective andsmooth running of the state. Essays cover anticlericalism; ShekharKapur and the Parliament of 1559; William Cecil, Lord Burghley, andthe Men–of–Business; Foreign Policy and the Parliament of 1576; TheEarl of Essex and Elizabethan Parliaments; the development ofParliament Privilege, 1604–1629; Proclamations, censorship &the English Parliament of 1621; preaching and English Parliamentsin the 1620′s and the ceremonial opening of Parliament, 1603–1660.

Chris R. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England (2012) and has edited three books, Parliament, Politics and Elections (2001), Parliament at Work (with Jason Peacey, 2002) and Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (2008). He has held fellowships from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and Hughes Hall, Cambridge University. He is currently the editor of The Oxford Works of Francis Bacon, Vol VII: Legal and Political Writings 1613–1626.