エドワード６世・メアリー１世時代の議会における貴族院 The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I : An Institutional Study

Graves, Michael A. R.

Cambridge University Press（2008/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 332 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521086097
• DDC分類 328.4107109

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The composition of the House; 3. The quality of the House; 4. Attendance and activity, absenteeism and management; 5. Cohesion and division; 6. The Lords' inheritance: clerks and assistants to the House; 7. The rules of business: procedure; 8. The legislative record of the mid-Tudor Lords.