After the Reformation

Essays in Honor of J. H. Hexter

Barbara C. Malament

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780812277746
  9780812277746
• eBook ISBN:
  9781512803990
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia europea

Civilization and madness; community and class; bureaucracy, corruption, and revolution—these essays range from social history to political history and the history of ideas. All take a strong interpretive stand in the manner of the man to whom they are dedicated. Together they make a major contribution to the scholarship on sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century Europe. In the presentation of these original essays, it is justly noted that J. H. Hexter served as the conscience of his fellow scholars for over thirty years—a distinguished tribute accompanied by the best work by the best people in the field. Former students are among the contributors, as are some of J. H. Hexter's colleagues and friends, including two that he frequently engaged in debate, Geoffrey Elton and Lawrence Stone.Born in Memphis, Tennessee, J. H. Hexter received his B.A. degree from the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. From 1939 to 1957 he taught at Queens College, CUNY. He then spent seven years as a member of the faculty of Washington University, to which he returned on his retirement from Yale University; where he taught from 1964 to 1978. Among his numerous awards are two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellow­ship, a fellowship from the Ford Foundation and one from the Institute for Advanced Study.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• The Theory of Practice: Hexter’s Historiography
• Toward a New Socio-Political Order
• Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace
• Toward a More Perfect Union: England, Scotland, and the Constitution
• Corruption at the Court of James I: The Undermining of Legitimacy
• Aristocrats and Lawyers in French Provincial Government, 1559-1648: From Governors to Commissars
• The Journal of the House of Lords for the Long Parliament
• Community and Class: Theories of Local Politics in the English Revolution
• The Residential Development of the West End of London in the Seventeenth Century
• The Problem of Ideological Adaptation
• Anxiety and the Formation of Early Modern Culture
• Madness and Civilization in Early Modem Europe: A Reappraisal of Michel Foucault
• The Elizabethan Bourgeois Hero-Tale: Aspects of an Adolescent Social Consciousness
• Constitutional Uncertainty and the Declaration of Rights
• The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution
• Authority and Property: The Question of Liberal Origins
• The Published Works of J. H. Hexter: A Bibliography
• Contributors