After the Reformation: Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter [Reprint 2016 ed.] 9781512803990

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
The Theory of Practice: Hexter’s Historiography
Toward a New Socio-Political Order
Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace
Toward a More Perfect Union: England, Scotland, and the Constitution
Corruption at the Court of James I: The Undermining of Legitimacy
Aristocrats and Lawyers in French Provincial Government, 1559-1648: From Governors to Commissars
The Journal of the House of Lords for the Long Parliament
Community and Class: Theories of Local Politics in the English Revolution
The Residential Development of the West End of London in the Seventeenth Century
The Problem of Ideological Adaptation
Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture
Madness and Civilization in Early Modem Europe: A Reappraisal of Michel Foucault
The Elizabethan Bourgeois Hero-Tale: Aspects of an Adolescent Social Consciousness
Constitutional Uncertainty and the Declaration of Rights
The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution
Authority and Property: The Question of Liberal Origins
The Published Works of J. H. Hexter: A Bibliography
Contributors

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After the

Reformation

William f. Bouwsma G. R. Elton Elizabeth Read Foster Robert R. Harding Brian P. Levack Barbara C. Malament H. C. Erik Midelfort Louis O. Mink Howard Nenner Laura Stevenson O'Connell Linda Levy Peck f. G. A. Pocock Quentin Skinner Lawrence Stone David Underdown

After the Reformation essays in honor of

/. H. Hexter edited by

Baibaia C. Malament Univemty of Pennsylvania Press

®

1980

Copyright © 1980 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: After the

Reformation.

Bibliography: p. 353 1. History, Modern—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Great Britain—History—Modem period, 1485—Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Hexter, Jack H., 1910—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Hexter, lack H., 1910IL Bouwsma, William fames, 1923III. Malament, Barbara C. D210.A28 1980 940.2 79-5254 ISBN 0-8122-7774-0

J. H. Hextei Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Jack Hexter received his A.B. from the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1939 to 1957 he taught at Queens College, CUNY. He then spent seven years as a member of the faculty of Washington University, to which he returned on his retirement as Charles S. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1964 to 1978. Among his numerous awards are two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, a fellowship from the Ford Foundation and one from the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1970-71 he served as president of the New England History Association; in 1973-75 he was president of the Conference on British Studies. Flis major works include The Reign of King Pym, Reappraisals in History, More's Utopia: The Biography of an Idea, The History Primer, Doing History, and The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation.

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The Theory