A Companion to Stuart Britain

The Blackwell Companions to British History series (of which this work is a part) is a subseries of the Blackwell Companions to History, a very wide‐ranging series covering European, American and world history. It aims to provide “overviews of the scholarship that has shaped our current understanding of the past” (verso of dust jacket). Thus, A Companion to Stuart Britain is mainly a historiographical work, featuring discussion of historical debates on particular topics rather than providing a narrative or metahistory of the period. It features issues of current interest to historians, such as the interactions between England, Scotland Wales and...