Parliament and Liberty from the Reign of Elizabeth to the English Civil War

The Making of Modern Freedom

by J.H. Hexter (editor)

These essays treat the evolution of English ideas of liberty from the end of the Elizabethan period up to the 1640s in the context of English constitutional and parliamentary history.

356 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Jack H. Hexter (who published as J.H. Hexter) received his doctorate from Harvard and later taught at Yale and Washington University (St. Louis), specializing in Tudor history and seventeenth century British history, as well as historiography.