"They, of all England, to ancient customs cleave:" Cheshire’s privileged autonomy and Tudor and Stuart politics

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dc.contributor.authorTomlin, Antony
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeFrank, Christopher(History)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeCossar, Roisin (History)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeOwens, Judith (English, Theatre, Film & Media)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorThomson, Erik (History)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T21:08:45Z
dc.date.available2018-07-24T21:08:45Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.date.submitted2018-07-18T21:26:02Zen
dc.degree.disciplineHistoryen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractProvincial autonomy in the competitive atmosphere of evolving ideas surrounding country, realm, and nation in late medieval and early-modern Britain is investigated through distinct and variegated notions of negotiated political deference to the authority of the English Crown and its Parliament. The Palatinate of Cheshire serves as an example to argue a tradition of independently negotiated county level structures for taxation and law created degrees of customary autonomy reinforcing the localized rejection of a single nation state. Historiographical debates surrounding early-modern conceptions about the nature of the state are challenged to argue for provincial autonomy founded upon custom and negotiation claimed and exerted by county inhabitants to a greater extent than previously recognised. I contend that early-modern communities locally recognized the composite structure and authority of the realm under the Crown and its advisors, but rejected the corporate idea that all counties collectively form a ‘nation’ as one political body.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/33179
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectTudor Englanden_US
dc.subjectStuart Englanden_US
dc.subjectMedieval politicsen_US
dc.subjectEarly-modern politicsen_US
dc.subjectProvincial Englanden_US
dc.subjectMonarchy and governmenten_US
dc.subjectParliamenten_US
dc.subjectCustom and memoryen_US
dc.subjectAutonomy and independenceen_US
dc.subjectCivil Waren_US
dc.subjectTaxationen_US
dc.subjectLocal governmenten_US
dc.subjectComposite monarchyen_US
dc.subjectBritish government and politicsen_US
dc.title"They, of all England, to ancient customs cleave:" Cheshire’s privileged autonomy and Tudor and Stuart politicsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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