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Parliament: To Legislate or Advise the Succession?
During the sixteenth-century Parliament held two main functions, those being to create legislation and to provide advice for their monarch, usually...
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Legislation, Treason and Parliament
Whilst the parliament shared many of its functions with conventions and operated in tandem with them, it retained two unique abilities: the power to...
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Feeling Political in Parliament: Rules, Regulations, and the Rostrum, Germany 1849–1951
This chapter focuses on four moments in German parliamentary history in which parliamentarians debated the regulation of speech and behaviour and...
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Parliament and Convention in the Personal Rule of James V of Scotland, 1528–1542
This book, based on a fresh understanding of Scottish governmental records rooted in extensive archival research, offers the first study of these...
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Queens and Noblewomen in Parliament
In spite of the history of the medieval Parliament being written solely as a history of men, there is a small amount of evidence to demonstrate the...
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Women on Trial in Parliament
The only case in which a woman was put to trial in Parliament during the later Middle Ages was that of Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III. An...
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Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England
This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English...
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Women, Parliament and the Public Sphere
Women as a social group were considered by Parliament in a number of instances during the later Middle Ages. The chapter surveys two issues where...
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Women’s Issues in Parliament: Rape
Rape or (in Latin) raptus consisted of a number of offences in the Middle Ages: it covered both sexual assault and simple abduction, in the latter...
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Women’s Issues in Parliament: Dower
Dower is the most common issue raised in petitions in Parliament by women (either in their own right, or in conjunction with husbands) during the...
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Conclusion: Women Speaking Out in the Medieval Parliament
The concluding chapter analyses an unusual case from the Parliament of 1427–1428 in which a group of London women were said to have entered the...
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Female Institutions and Collectives as Petitioners in Parliament
Women had fewer opportunities than men to petition in Parliament as collectives, but there are instances across the later Middle Ages in which they...
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The Mammoth prophecies: a role-playing game on controversies around a socio-technical innovation and its effects on students’ capacities to think about the future
This article reports on a political game played between November 2021 and February 2022 at a European university in the frame of an elective course...
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The 1922 Constitution as a Failed Attempt to Break with Westminster Tradition
This chapter seeks to re-examine a dominant popular narrative about the 1922 Constitution: that it largely followed and replicated, without great...
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The Matteotti Murder and Mussolini The Anatomy of a Fascist Crime
This much-awarded work by one of Italy’s most esteemed historians of fascism, Mauro Canali, is now available in English translation. Based on a...
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The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603
This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of...
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Imagining Ireland's Future, 1870-1914 Home Rule, Utopia, Dystopia
This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the...
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Choosing the Parliament
This chapter looks first at the different routes by which the interviewees ended up in the European Parliament, whether they had been involved in...
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Council and Conventions
This chapter explores the relationship between monarch, council, the committee of the lords of the articles and conventions. Although the lords of...
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Elizabeth’s Parliaments
In the Tudor period, most serious policy decisions were made by the monarch with the advice of key members of the Privy Council. But some important...