Using the forced loan as a focal point, this study examines the first major political crisis of Charles I's reign. Cust probes into Privy Council politics and policy-making, the relations between central and local governments, the nature of ideological divisions, the responses of local governors and subsidymen, and the role and attitude of the King himself.

The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626-1628

Politics & Social Sciences

Cust, Richard

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ' revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

History

Europe

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

"This is an outstanding piece of work: not only the best life of the king yet produced, but also the most subtle and balanced synthesis of current research on the politics and religion of the reign currently in print." - BBC History Magazine "Cust comes as close to producing a definitive account of the nature of Charles I's kingship as anyone is likely to do for a long time... We should be grateful ... for this brilliantly conceived and deeply pondered work. It becomes a crucial point of reference, always trustworthy and enlightening" - History Today Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have struggled to get him into perspective, veering between outright condemnation and measured sympathy. This biography sets out to challenge recent assessments of Charles as someone ‘unfit to be king’, and emphasises his strengths as a party leader and conviction politician. These characteristics, along with his misjudgement and mishandling of crises, played a critical role in the causes of the English Civil War. Ultimately pushing Charles' enemies into a posiiton where they had little choice but to execute him. It is an accessible narrative of the high politics of Charles’s reign as a whole, exploring developments in Scotland and Ireland as well as England. It connects this politics with religious conflict, court culture, Renaissance ideas of monarchy and the emergence of a ‘public sphere’ of news and political debate, while also offering a reassessment of topics such as the origins of the Personal Rule, the political role of Queen Henrietta Maria and Charles’s performance as a military commander.

Charles I: A political life (Profiles in Power)

Longman

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

Conflict in Early Stuart England

Hughes, Ann

Routledge

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds to stabilise the social order.

Cambridge University Press

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

Charles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have struggled to get him into perspective, veering between outright condemnation and measured sympathy.
Richard Cust shows that Charles I was not ‘unfit to be a king’, emphasising his strengths as a party leader and conviction politician, but concludes that, none the less, his prejudices and attitudes, and his mishandling of political crises did much to bring about a civil war in Britain. He argues that ultimately, after the war, Charles pushed his enemies into a position where they had little choice but to execute him.

Charles I

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the county's governing elite and puritan religious establishment responded to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I's Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire in 1641-2. An important contribution to understanding the local origins and outbreak of civil war in England, the book will be of interest to all students and scholars studying the English revolution.

Gentry culture and the politics of religion: Cheshire on the eve of civil war (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)

Lake, Peter

Manchester University Press

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The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626-1628

Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

Charles I: A political life (Profiles in Power)

Conflict in Early Stuart England

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

Charles I

Gentry culture and the politics of religion: Cheshire on the eve of civil war (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)