Jacobean Gentleman : : Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 / / Theodore K. Rabb.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
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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