Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
10 - The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Patrick Collinson
- 1 Nicolas Pithou: experience, conscience and history in the French civil wars
- 2 Elizabethan players and minstrels and the legislation of 1572 against retainers and vagabonds
- 3 Cleanliness and godliness in early modern England
- 4 Blood is their argument: men of war and soldiers in Shakespeare and others
- 5 Pragmatic readers: knowledge transactions and scholarly services in late Elizabethan England
- 6 The gardens of Sir Nicholas and Sir Francis Bacon: an enigma resolved and a mind explored
- 7 The Protestant idea of marriage in early modern England
- 8 James VI and I: furnishing the churches in his two kingdoms
- 9 A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the early Stuarts
- 10 The Anglo-Scottish Union 1603–1643: a success?
- 11 Popery, purity and Providence: deciphering the New England experiment
- 12 Provincial preaching on the eve of the Civil War: some West Riding fast sermons
- 13 Popular form, Puritan content? Two Puritan appropriations of the murder pamphlet from mid-seventeenth-century London
- 14 The two ‘National Churches’ of 1691 and 1829
- Bibliography of the published writings of Patrick Collinson, 1957–1992
- Index
Summary
This title may at first sight provoke a certain amusement. Some readers may be moved to ask: ‘The Anglo-Scottish Union a success? It produced four Scottish invasions of England in eleven years, didn't it?’ Many people, including myself, have written on the weaknesses and the difficulties of the Anglo-Scottish Union. Those weaknesses patently existed, and were significant. Yet most of the writing on the weakness of the Union has been directed to the task of explaining either the Covenanting Revolution, or the English Civil War, or both. It has therefore had a teleological bias towards concentrating on the weakness of the Union. Yet there is another trend, equally valid if equally teleological, which leads, not towards 1643, but towards 1707. It is necessary to survey the Union of the Crowns from both vantage points before we can get a fix on it, and approach the task of seeing it as it was.
This essay is not intended to unsay what I have already written on the weakness of the Union of the Crowns. It is intended to provide a context in which, in a perfect world, I should have put it in the first place. Neither then nor now has the Union of England and Scotland been free of strains, yet it has one solid achievement to its credit.
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- Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern BritainEssays in Honour of Patrick Collinson, pp. 238 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994