3 categories of historical interpretation for Charles' personal rule
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- Created on: 01-12-21 11:27
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- 3 categories of historical interpretation for Charles' personal rule
- 'Whig' historians
- 19th and 20th century
- 'Charles as a tyrant seeking to establish monarchy'
- 'saw parliament as engaged in a conscious struggle for liberty'
- Revisionist historians
- recently
- 'collapse of authority in the mid 17th century was not caused by long term problems, but by a clash of personalities and errors by the king and many others... could well have been avoided'
- Marxist historians
- 20th century
- argued that 'economic factors and class rivalries were more important
- 'Whig' historians
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