Product Description: A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.

Product Description: Contributions to this volume range from studies of particular sessions and individual members of parliament to the general problems of Court and Country, foreign affairs, and royal finance. They question the traditional picture of an early Stuart crisis in relations between Crown and Commons which lead to civil war and the development of modern parliamentary government...read more