Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
The Not-So-New Men
By Jack H. Hexter
Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629
by Conrad Russell
Oxford University Press, 453 pp., $36.00
In 1976, the English historian Conrad Russell published an article, 'Parliamentary History in Perspective: 1604-1629.'[1] Russell's main views on that history diverge sharply from those of every specialist for the past century, and if he is right, then the interpretations of other historians of the years between 1560 and 1660 are surely askew. Russell himself believes that his findings call for a drastic revision of the 'traditional view,' the 'conventional belief,' the 'received opinions.'
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