Cromwell's House of Lords : politics, parliaments and constitutional revolution, 1642-1660 /
The final years of the Cromwellian Protectorate are usually written off in the historiography as a brief interlude on the inevitable road to Restoration. This book galvanises this forgotten period of Interregnum studies by providing the first thorough study of the Cromwellian 'Other House,'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, New York :
Boydell Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ;
v. 30. |
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| Summary: | The final years of the Cromwellian Protectorate are usually written off in the historiography as a brief interlude on the inevitable road to Restoration. This book galvanises this forgotten period of Interregnum studies by providing the first thorough study of the Cromwellian 'Other House,' a new upper parliamentary chamber of nominated life peers created in 1657. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783272471 1783272473 |