Jacobean Gentleman : : Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 / / Theodore K. Rabb.

• VerfasserIn: Rabb, Theodore K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5212
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)

Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, presents here the first full-scale biography of the influential English parliamentarian, colonizer, and religious thinker Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629). Rabb has studied Sandys's life and work for more than thirty years and shows that he played a vital role in the Jacobean Age's two most distinctive achievements: the early development of England's constitutional structure and the overseas expansion that began the British empire. Sandys made his contributions, Rabb demonstrates, in the course of an extraordinarily diverse career. Sandys sat in the House of Commons from the 1580s to the mid-1620s, becoming its elder statesman and most influential voice on economic affairs, constitutional issues, and parliamentary procedure. He was a leader of the Virginia Company and the Bermuda Company, which established and settled these two early English colonies, and was also a director of the East India Company. And in an age beset by religious extremism, Sandys wrote a book on religious toleration that was widely read and discussed throughout Europe. reassessment of parliamentary politics on the eve of the English Civil War. Rabb shows that Sandys helped shape gentry positions, independent of Crown or Court, on major political issues, which in turn gave the House of Commons a new prominence in English affairs. This long-needed work will prompt a reexamination of vital aspects of the constitutional, colonial, and religious history of the Stuart period.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE. Early Years -- Chapter I. THE SETTING AND THE MAN -- Chapter II. WRITINGS, OUTLOOK, AND PERSONALITY -- PART TWO. Parliament -- Chapter III. THE “COMMONS-MAN” -- Chapter IV. 1604: THE NEW KING AND HIS “FREE SUBJECTS” -- Chapter V. “DISSENT IS ALWAYS DISPLEASING”: THE SESSIONS OF 1606 AND 1607 -- Chapter VI. THE GREAT CONTRACT -- Chapter VII. “NOT MANY ARGUMENTS, BUT STRONG”: THE ADDLED PARLIAMENT -- Chapter VIII THE PARLIAMENT OF 1621: HARMONY AND HARD WORK, FEBRUARY TO APRIL -- Chapter IX. THE PARLIAMENT OF 1621: DESCENT INTO CONFLICT, MAY TO DECEMBER -- Chapter X. THE M.P. VICTORIOUS: BUCKINGHAM AND THE PARLIAMENT OF 1624 -- Chapter XI. FAREWELL TO PARLIAMENT -- PART THREE. Commerce and Colonization -- Chapter XII. OVERSEAS VENTURES -- Chapter XIII. COLLAPSE IN VIRGINIA -- PART FOUR. Jacobean Gentleman -- Chapter XIV. THE MEASURE OF THE MAN -- INDEX