The House of Commons at War - 1621-29 (Hardcover)

This is a reinterpretation and reassessment of a critical period in English history. The 1620s were a decade of crisis. In response to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, Parliament met for an unprecedented eight sessions. Did this era of foreign conflict, as revisionists such as Conrad Russell have argued, cause Parliament's decline, or did it provoke an unparalleled opportunity for MPs to hone their skills in dealing with the Crown and to develop a sense of their collective importance, experiences which were to prove crucial?