Bishops and the English Parliament 1558-1642

主教和英国议会 1558-1642

• 批准号: 2596480
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2596480
• 关键词: Bishops; English; Parliament; 1558; 1642

The presence and activities of bishops in the English Parliament was the subject of major controversy in the century following the Elizabethan settlement, culminating in the removal of bishops from the House of Lords by statute in 1642. While early modern bishops' pastoral roles and ecclesiastical jurisdiction has received more recent attention from historians, the nature of (and disputes over) their political and parliamentary role remains relatively neglected (outside studies of individual parliaments). This PhD project is intended to redress this balance by providing the first sustained study of bishops' presence and activities in Parliament, and the disputes over them, between the Elizabethan settlement and their ejection in 1642. The project will study a range of bishops' parliamentary activities - in committees, debates, and the formulation of legislation - analysing how they blocked, revised and initiated bills on religious and other matters, and how in some cases they acted through surrogates in the Commons to use Parliament as a political forum to lobby for their preferred policies. The student will also be encouraged to look to develop the project in ways that build upon their own specific interests. One possibility might be to engage with contemporary theoretical disputes regarding bishops' secular powers which had major constitutional implications, and to analyse how far these related to the precise activities that bishops pursued in Parliament, and how far these phenomena changed over time. It is expected that the student will analyse a wide range of surviving materials when working on this project. Guidance in locating and analysing this material will be provided by the supervisory team, but also by the History of Parliament (HoP), whose collaboration is an indispensable feature of this project. The student will have a unique opportunity to develop their research knowledge and skills while working and consulting with the foremost experts on Elizabethan and early Stuart parliaments. They will have access not just to this unrivalled expertise, but will also be able to make use of the finding aids, papers, xeroxes and diary transcripts accumulated by HoP during their work on this period, and the shelf collection available at the HoP's offices. The student will work closely with the new HoP project covering The Lords, 1558-1603, providing direct input by covering the parliamentary activities of bishops as well as assisting in the creation of biographies of episcopal members and also ecclesiastical material for the introductory survey and online database of legislation. They will also assist in ongoing work on the creation of a database of parliamentary bills 1558-1662, and may assist with the set-up of potential projects to succeed another HoP project, The Commons 1640-1660, which will be completed shortly.About the History of ParliamentThe History of Parliament Trust is one of the best known and most respected projects in British and Irish history, with a national and international reputation for the value and quality of its research. Its biographical studies of members and peers of the Westminster Parliament, and its accounts of politics and elections in each constituency now amount to an extraordinary resource for historians, along with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Victoria History of the Counties of England a crucial part of the infrastructure for British and Irish history. There are now 53 published volumes of the History, totalling over 30 million words. All but the most recently published volumes are now available through the History's website, at www.historyofparliamentonline.org. The project is funded by both Houses of Parliament. It was formally founded in 1940 as a Trust. Most of the Trustees are members or officers of one or other House of Parliament. There is also an academic advisory board which consists of major historians of British politics and society.

主教在英国议会中的存在和活动是在君士坦丁堡定居点之后的世纪中的主要争议主题，最终在1642年通过法令将主教从上议院中移除。虽然早期现代主教的牧灵角色和教会管辖权最近受到历史学家的关注，但他们的政治和议会角色的性质（和争议）仍然相对被忽视（个别议会的研究之外）。这个博士项目旨在通过提供主教在议会中的存在和活动的第一个持续研究来纠正这种平衡，以及在1642年的君士坦丁堡解决方案和他们的驱逐之间的争端。该项目将研究主教的一系列议会活动-在委员会，辩论和立法的制定-分析他们如何阻止，修改和启动有关宗教和其他事务的法案，以及在某些情况下，他们如何通过下议院的代理人采取行动，利用议会作为政治论坛来游说他们的首选政策。还将鼓励学生以建立在自己特定兴趣基础上的方式开发项目。一种可能性是参与当代关于主教世俗权力的理论争论，这些争论具有重大的宪法意义，并分析这些争论与主教在议会中所从事的确切活动有多大关系，以及这些现象随着时间的推移发生了多大变化。预计学生将在这个项目工作时分析各种各样的幸存材料。在查找和分析这些材料方面，将由监督小组提供指导，但也由议会历史提供指导，他们的合作是该项目不可或缺的特点。学生将有一个独特的机会，发展自己的研究知识和技能，同时工作和咨询与最重要的专家对伊丽莎白和早期斯图亚特议会。他们不仅可以获得这一无与伦比的专业知识，而且还可以利用HoP在这一时期的工作中积累的查找工具、论文、复印件和日记记录，以及HoP办公室的书架收藏。该学生将与涵盖《上议院，1558-1603》的新HoP项目密切合作，通过报道主教的议会活动提供直接意见，并协助制作主教成员的传记以及用于介绍性调查的教会材料和在线立法数据库。他们还将协助正在进行的创建1558-1662年议会法案数据库的工作，并可能协助建立潜在的项目，以接替即将完成的另一个HoP项目The Commons 1640-1660。关于议会信托的历史议会信托的历史是英国和爱尔兰历史上最著名和最受尊敬的项目之一，其研究的价值和质量在国内和国际上享有盛誉。它对威斯敏斯特议会成员和同僚的传记研究，以及对每个选区政治和选举的描述，现在已经成为历史学家的非凡资源，沿着的还有《牛津国家传记词典》和《英格兰各郡维多利亚史》，它们是英国和爱尔兰历史基础设施的重要组成部分。《历史》现已出版53卷，总字数超过3000万字。除了最近出版的书籍外，所有书籍现在都可以在历史网站www.historyofferingonline.org上查阅。它于1940年作为信托正式成立。大多数受托人都是议会的成员或官员。还有一个学术顾问委员会，由英国政治和社会的主要历史学家组成。