The Stuart Court and Europe : essays in politics and political culture Edited by R Malcolm Smuts

Contents :Introduction / R. Malcolm Smuts -- England's trobles 1603-1702 / Jonathan Scott -- The ancient constitution reassessed : the common law, the court and the languages of politics in early modern England / J.P. Sommerville -- The invention of Britain and the early Stuart masque / Martin Butler -- Art and the material culture of majesty in early Stuart England / R. Malcolm Smuts -- The Hector of Germaine, or The Palsgrave, Prime Elector and Anglo-German relations of early Stuart England : the view from the popular stage / Hans Werner -- Old English honour in an evil time : aristocratic principle in the 1620s / Richard C. McCoy -- The theatre of dynasty / Caroline Hibbard -- French philosophy and English politics in interregnum poetry / Charles Kay Smith -- 'Crouching at home and cruel while abroad' : restoration constructions of national and international character / Annabel Patterson -- The religion of Charles II / Ronald Hutton -- The duchess of Portsmouth : English royal consort and French politician, 1670-85 / Nancy Klein Maguire -- The world beyond Whitehall : British historiography and European archives / Geoffrey Parker