An edition of The House of Lords, 1603-1649 (1983)
The House of Lords, 1603-1649
Structure, Procedure, and the Nature of Its Business
By Elizabeth Read Foster
Publish Date
1983
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
eng
Pages
353
Description:
This is a superb book. It is a comprehensive consideration of the business record of the upper house. What I personally find to be the more entertaining and interesting house of parliament, Foster has a rare ability of making the complex matters accessible, and making what might seem to be archaic or irrelevant procedures understood in their proper context. Despite the fact that the Lords could sometimes be consumed by seemingly unimportant issues such as hats and privilege, these episodes are expertly deciphered with a view to helping the reader understand that these issues were not just important to individuals at the time, but a brilliant window onto the nobility and how it was affected by the conflagration that was the Stuart period.