Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England PDF
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MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION AND THE INVENTION OF POLITICS IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND In the decades before the Civil War, English readers confronted an extensive and influential pamphlet literature. This literature addressedcontemporaryeventsinscathinglycriticalterms,waspro- duced in enormous quantities, and was devoured by the curious. Despite widespread contemporary interest and large numbers of surviving copies, this literature has remained almost entirely unknowntoscholarsbecauseitwascirculatedinhandwritingrather than printed with movable type. Drawing from book history, the sociology of knowledge, and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone provides the first systematic account of the production, circulation,andreceptionofthesemanuscriptpamphlets.Byplacing theminthecontextofsocialchange,stateformation,andtheemer- gence of ‘politic’ expertise, Millstone uses the pamphlets to resolve oneofthecentralproblemsofearlyStuarthistory:howandwhydid the men and women of early seventeenth-century England come to seetheirworldaspolitical? noah millstone is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the UniversityofBristol. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN BRITISH HISTORY Serieseditors johnmorrill,ProfessorofBritishandIrishHistory,UniversityofCambridge,and FellowofSelwynCollege ethanshagan,ProfessorofHistory,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley alexandrashepard,ProfessorofGenderHistory,UniversityofGlasgow alexandrawalsham,ProfessorofModernHistory,UniversityofCambridge,and FellowofTrinityCollege Thisisaseriesofmonographsandstudiescoveringmanyaspectsofthehistoryof the British Isles between the late fifteenth century and the early eighteenth century. It includes the work of established scholars and pioneering work by a newgenerationofscholars.Itincludesbothreviewsandrevisionsofmajortopics and books which open up new historical terrain or which reveal startling new perspectives on familiar subjects. All the volumes set detailed research within broader perspectives, and the books are intended for the use of students as well asoftheirteachers. Foralistoftitlesintheseriesgotowww.cambridge.org/earlymodernbritishhistory MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION AND THE INVENTION OF POLITICS IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND NOAH MILLSTONE UniversityofBristol UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107120723 ©NoahMillstone2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-107-12072-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For my parents Contents Listoffigures pageviii Acknowledgements ix Noteondates xi Listofabbreviations xii 1 Introduction 1 part i conditions of production 23 2 Thesociallifeofhandwriting 25 3 Tuningtheinstrument 55 4 Performanceandparliament 94 part ii subjects and subjectivities 127 5 Bristol’srevenge 129 6 Historiansofthepresent 165 part iii the secret history of the state 195 7 Theantiquaryandthemalcontent 197 8 Thedriftofthepersonalrule 238 9 Theill-affected 275 Conclusion 316 SelectBibliography 325 Index 347 vii Figures 2.1 ExaminationsstemmingfromtheSellerlibel.TNASP16/109/34. page27 3.1 Countycontributions1614–15vs.subsidypayments(average 84 of1610and1621). 3.2 Diocesancontributions1614–15,percentageoveror 85 underperformancevs1621subsidypayments. 3.3 Selectedindividualcontributions1614–15asequivalentnumber 86 of1621subsidies. 3.4 Marlboroughcontributions1614–15vssubsidyassessments 88 (averageof1610and1611). 4.1 Commons’declaration,February1629.TNAC103/34. 98 4.2 Pamphlettextsperparliament. 98 4.3 Pamphlettextspersessionadjustedforsessionlengthinweeks. 99 4.4 Numbersofcopiesoftextsbyparliamentaspercentagesofthe 101 wholesample. 4.5 Percentagesoftitlesvspercentagesofcopies,byparliament. 102 4.6 ‘Official’and‘unofficial’copiesofthesametext.HALSMS 108 XII.B.18. 8.1 Writtencopiesofthejudges’arguments,January–June1638. 267 10.1 StraffordsPlotDiscovered(1646).HoughtonEC65H100646s. 322 viii
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