Mark Knights
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 797534 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Knights |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Knights |
| FIRMA | KNIGHTS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2138-3202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Ambiguities and Vagaries of Popular Control
Over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and across Britain’s empire, the idea took hold that a public office was a fiduciary trust, with legally and rhetorically enforceable duties of accountability, selflessness, and duty of care. Coupled with a remarkably free press which enabled the exposure and pursuit of corrupt activity, and petitioning activity that put pressure on Parliament, this development fostered important ideas and practices …
The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, by William Bulman
Journal Article The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, by William Bulman Get access The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire, by William Bulman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp. 330. £75). Mark Knights Mark Knights University of Warwick, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead040, htt…
Trust and Distrust
The book offers the first overview of Britain’s history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600–1850. As such, it is intended to appeal to historians but also to political and social scientists, whose work is extensively cited in an expansive and evaluative bibliography. Another distinctive feature of the book is the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office—a key argument is that these were intertwined …
The History of Parliament
The publication of any set of History of Parliament volumes is always something of a major event and achievement that deserves celebration. The research is the result of a huge collaborative effort, producing a valuable reference work in its own right but also contributing to the larger unfolding history of the palace of Westminster since medieval times. These particular volumes are the first of a new and very welcome History of Parliament projec…
The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain
This interdisciplinary collection considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the traditional literary canon to investigate printed material of all kinds, both textual and visual, it considers satire as a mode or attitude rather than a literary genr…
The Lowest Degree of Freedom’
The essay examines the right to petition from the revolutions of the 17th century to the start of the age of reform. It shows that, by legislating for a right to petition the monarch, the revolution of 1688 appeared to resolve some of the uncertainty about the right to petition that had been apparent since the 1640s, but failed to confirm a right to petition parliament and left considerable ambiguities about the legitimacy of popular pressure exe…
The Corporate Commonwealth
This is a skilfully written, interdisciplinary book, written by a scholar of English literature, Henry Turner, who highlights the importance of early modern corporations as political, legal and economic ‘fictions’. A corporation was a fictional ‘person’ created by law as the result of an enforceable, binding, foundational agreement; it was also a political body, since it created a unified body politic out of the mass of individuals who became par…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics. One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each oth…
Democracy Is About More Than Voting
Corruption, Party and Government in Britain, 1702–1713, by Aaron Graham
This is an important book with some very interesting implications for the history of state formation. At first glance it may seem that it is not for the faint-hearted, since part of its success lies in the careful untangling of complex financial and personal networks that underpinned the capacity to raise money for the War of Spanish Succession. There is a good deal of economic jargon, dense description and unfolding of the army Pay Office’s byza…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy
The shift away from an Anglocentric view of history has ushered in a British approach that integrates and accords weight to Scottish and Irish perspectives, and to an Atlantic history that places Britain as part of an interlocking series of American and Caribbean stories. The rise of global history promises to redirect our gaze even more widely. The appearance of a volume of essays examining the revolution of 1688 in a British, Atlantic and Europ…
Political Trust in Early Modern Britain
The later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were full of plots. The Popish Plot, the Meal Tub Plot, the Rye House Plot, Monmouth's rebellion and the Army Plot had already characterized the 1680s as a decade of intrigue; and after the revolution of 1688 the 1690s continued in a similar vein, with a rash of Jacobite plots. These post-revolutionary plots, or rather the ‘plague of informers’ whose evidence fuelled government anxiety about th…
The Implications of Social Media
Keywords: virtual research environmentsocial mediadigital curationpublic engagement
Samuel Pepys and Corruption
Picking up a theme that runs through D avid H ayton's work, this article examines corruption in the later S tuart period through a case study of S amuel P epys. The latter's diary can be read alongside the public record of parliamentary inquiries and vilification in the press, allowing us a rare opportunity to study corruption simultaneously through the eyes of a perpetrator and his critics. P epys reveals ambiguities in how corruption was define…
Scott Sowerby. Making Toleration
The English revolution of 1688 has become interesting again, with a lively historiographical debate to which Scott Sowerby's book makes an important contribution. Steve Pincus's 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2009) suggested that Britons faced a fundamental choice between two competing models of modernization: one a catholicizing authoritarian regime with a land-based political economy, the other a religiously tolerant, consensual, and labor-…
Introduction
The articles in this volume, planned to mark the tercentenary of the impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell on 23 March 1710, reassess the importance of his trial. Sacheverell's attack on the revolution of 1688, and the principles which underpinned it, allows us to question how far, 20 years later, a whig revolution had prevailed. The articles suggest that the revolution continued to be contested; that in 1710 the high church tory vision temporarily…
Taking a Historical Turn
The Devil in Disguise
This study illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. The book does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife, all set against a backdrop of v…
Commonwealth
The article explores ‘commonwealth’ both as a term and a conceptual field across the early modern period, with a particular focus on the Anglophone world. The shifts of usage of ‘commonwealth’ are explored, from a term used to describe the polity, to one used to describe a particular, republican form of polity, through to its eclipse in the eighteenth century by other terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘state’. But the article also investigates the varie…
Political Representation
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers, and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move for…
Uncovering a Jacobite Whig? The Commonwealth Principles of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington
This article offers new evidence about Henry Booth, 2nd Lord Delamere and then 1st earl of Warrington. It focuses on (and reproduces) a manuscript in which an archetypal true whig, who was publicly hostile to James II in and after 1688, suggests how the whigs and James might be reconciled and how James might return to England. The article places the piece in the context of Warrington's other writings, his sense of betrayal and lost opportunity, t…
Occasional Conformity and the Representation of Dissent
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder
In 1726 a poor woman, Mary Toft, repeatedly gave birth to rabbits. At least that was the claim and it was taken seriously enough for the Prince of Wales to send his secretary and several leading do
Guns, Camps and Cash
The process of disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration (DDRR) of former combatants plays a critical role in transitions from war to peace. The success or failure of this endeavour directly affects the long-term peacebuilding prospects for any post-conflict society. The exploration of the closely interwoven relationship between peacebuilding and the DDRR process also provides a theoretical framework for this article, which aims …
Commonwealth
The article explores ‘commonwealth’ both as a term and a conceptual field across the early modern period, with a particular focus on the Anglophone world. The shifts of usage of ‘commonwealth’ are explored, from a term used to describe the polity, to one used to describe a particular, republican form of polity, through to its eclipse in the eighteenth century by other terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘state’. But the article also investigates the varie…
London's ‘Monster’ Petition of 1680
The unrest in London during the ‘Exclusion Crisis’ filled Charles II with fear and foreboding of a new civil war. Yet although recent research has highlighted the important role played by the capital's inhabitants in the period, the evidence available for studying the groups of radicals involved has been sketchy and fragmentary. This article uses a new source, in the form of a mass petition, signed by almost 16,000 citizens, which was presented t…
Trust and Distrust
The book offers the first overview of Britain’s history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600–1850. As such, it is intended to appeal to historians but also to political and social scientists, whose work is extensively cited in an expansive and evaluative bibliography. Another distinctive feature of the book is the interaction of the domestic and imperial stories of corruption in office—a key argument is that these were intertwined …
Taking a Historical Turn
The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
John Starkey and Ideological Networks in Late Seventeenth-Century England
A City Revolution
Journal Article A City Revolution: The Remodelling of the London Livery Companies in the 1680s Get access MARK KNIGHTS MARK KNIGHTS University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1141–1178, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1141 Published: 01 November 1997
Occasional Conformity and the Representation of Dissent
History and Literature in the Age of Defoe and Swift
This article explores the political and literary culture of the first age of party. The article takes two key themes that arise from recent work on this period: first, the emergence of new roles for the public and second, challenges to the manner in which public debate and discourse operated. It argues both that the public was a fiction and that there was also an ingrained fictional impulse in the nature of partisanship. These phenomena combined …
Petitioning and the Political Theorists
PETITIONING AND THE POLITICAL THEORISTS: JOHN LOCKE, ALGERNON SIDNEY AND LONDON'S “MONSTER” PETITION OF 1680 Get access Mark Knights Mark Knights History of ParliamentLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 138, Issue 1, February 1993, Pages 94–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/138.1.94 Published: 01 February 1993
The Lowest Degree of Freedom’
The essay examines the right to petition from the revolutions of the 17th century to the start of the age of reform. It shows that, by legislating for a right to petition the monarch, the revolution of 1688 appeared to resolve some of the uncertainty about the right to petition that had been apparent since the 1640s, but failed to confirm a right to petition parliament and left considerable ambiguities about the legitimacy of popular pressure exe…
Samuel Pepys and Corruption
Picking up a theme that runs through D avid H ayton's work, this article examines corruption in the later S tuart period through a case study of S amuel P epys. The latter's diary can be read alongside the public record of parliamentary inquiries and vilification in the press, allowing us a rare opportunity to study corruption simultaneously through the eyes of a perpetrator and his critics. P epys reveals ambiguities in how corruption was define…
Introduction
The articles in this volume, planned to mark the tercentenary of the impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell on 23 March 1710, reassess the importance of his trial. Sacheverell's attack on the revolution of 1688, and the principles which underpinned it, allows us to question how far, 20 years later, a whig revolution had prevailed. The articles suggest that the revolution continued to be contested; that in 1710 the high church tory vision temporarily…
London Petitions and Parliamentary Politics in 1679
London's ‘Monster’ Petition of 1680
The unrest in London during the ‘Exclusion Crisis’ filled Charles II with fear and foreboding of a new civil war. Yet although recent research has highlighted the important role played by the capital's inhabitants in the period, the evidence available for studying the groups of radicals involved has been sketchy and fragmentary. This article uses a new source, in the form of a mass petition, signed by almost 16,000 citizens, which was presented t…
Petitioning and the Political Theorists
PETITIONING AND THE POLITICAL THEORISTS: JOHN LOCKE, ALGERNON SIDNEY AND LONDON'S “MONSTER” PETITION OF 1680 Get access Mark Knights Mark Knights History of ParliamentLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 138, Issue 1, February 1993, Pages 94–111, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/138.1.94 Published: 01 February 1993
Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-81.
A City Revolution
Journal Article A City Revolution: The Remodelling of the London Livery Companies in the 1680s Get access MARK KNIGHTS MARK KNIGHTS University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Pages 1141–1178, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1141 Published: 01 November 1997
Guns, Camps and Cash
The process of disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration (DDRR) of former combatants plays a critical role in transitions from war to peace. The success or failure of this endeavour directly affects the long-term peacebuilding prospects for any post-conflict society. The exploration of the closely interwoven relationship between peacebuilding and the DDRR process also provides a theoretical framework for this article, which aims …
History and Literature in the Age of Defoe and Swift
This article explores the political and literary culture of the first age of party. The article takes two key themes that arise from recent work on this period: first, the emergence of new roles for the public and second, challenges to the manner in which public debate and discourse operated. It argues both that the public was a fiction and that there was also an ingrained fictional impulse in the nature of partisanship. These phenomena combined …
John Starkey and Ideological Networks in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought
Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought, by Belinda Roberts Peters (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; pp. 243. £45). The aims of this book are thoroughly praiseworthy. For too long political thought has remained divorced from social practice. So a book that seeks to investigate the political concepts of contract and consent, subjection and tyranny in relation to the social practices and literary representations of marriage seems ex…
Parliament, Print and Corruption in Later Stuart Britain
Occasional Conformity and the Representation of Dissent
Uncovering a Jacobite Whig? The Commonwealth Principles of Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington
This article offers new evidence about Henry Booth, 2nd Lord Delamere and then 1st earl of Warrington. It focuses on (and reproduces) a manuscript in which an archetypal true whig, who was publicly hostile to James II in and after 1688, suggests how the whigs and James might be reconciled and how James might return to England. The article places the piece in the context of Warrington's other writings, his sense of betrayal and lost opportunity, t…
Political Representation
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers, and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move for…
The Devil in Disguise
This study illuminates the impact of the two British revolutions of the seventeenth century and the shifts in religious, political, scientific, literary, economic, social, and moral culture that they brought about. The book does so through the fascinating story of one family and their locality: the Cowpers of Hertford. Their dramatic history contains a murder mystery, bigamy, a scandal novel, and a tyrannized wife, all set against a backdrop of v…
Commonwealth
The article explores ‘commonwealth’ both as a term and a conceptual field across the early modern period, with a particular focus on the Anglophone world. The shifts of usage of ‘commonwealth’ are explored, from a term used to describe the polity, to one used to describe a particular, republican form of polity, through to its eclipse in the eighteenth century by other terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘state’. But the article also investigates the varie…
Introduction
The articles in this volume, planned to mark the tercentenary of the impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell on 23 March 1710, reassess the importance of his trial. Sacheverell's attack on the revolution of 1688, and the principles which underpinned it, allows us to question how far, 20 years later, a whig revolution had prevailed. The articles suggest that the revolution continued to be contested; that in 1710 the high church tory vision temporarily…
Taking a Historical Turn
The Implications of Social Media
Keywords: virtual research environmentsocial mediadigital curationpublic engagement
Samuel Pepys and Corruption
Picking up a theme that runs through D avid H ayton's work, this article examines corruption in the later S tuart period through a case study of S amuel P epys. The latter's diary can be read alongside the public record of parliamentary inquiries and vilification in the press, allowing us a rare opportunity to study corruption simultaneously through the eyes of a perpetrator and his critics. P epys reveals ambiguities in how corruption was define…
Scott Sowerby. Making Toleration
The English revolution of 1688 has become interesting again, with a lively historiographical debate to which Scott Sowerby's book makes an important contribution. Steve Pincus's 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2009) suggested that Britons faced a fundamental choice between two competing models of modernization: one a catholicizing authoritarian regime with a land-based political economy, the other a religiously tolerant, consensual, and labor-…
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy
The shift away from an Anglocentric view of history has ushered in a British approach that integrates and accords weight to Scottish and Irish perspectives, and to an Atlantic history that places Britain as part of an interlocking series of American and Caribbean stories. The rise of global history promises to redirect our gaze even more widely. The appearance of a volume of essays examining the revolution of 1688 in a British, Atlantic and Europ…
Political Trust in Early Modern Britain
The later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were full of plots. The Popish Plot, the Meal Tub Plot, the Rye House Plot, Monmouth's rebellion and the Army Plot had already characterized the 1680s as a decade of intrigue; and after the revolution of 1688 the 1690s continued in a similar vein, with a rash of Jacobite plots. These post-revolutionary plots, or rather the ‘plague of informers’ whose evidence fuelled government anxiety about th…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics. One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each oth…
Democracy Is About More Than Voting
Corruption, Party and Government in Britain, 1702–1713, by Aaron Graham
This is an important book with some very interesting implications for the history of state formation. At first glance it may seem that it is not for the faint-hearted, since part of its success lies in the careful untangling of complex financial and personal networks that underpinned the capacity to raise money for the War of Spanish Succession. There is a good deal of economic jargon, dense description and unfolding of the army Pay Office’s byza…
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