90 How to hold a parliament

The History of England

David Crowther

Europe, Queen, England, Medieval, Politics, Royal, History, Parliament, English, King, Modern, Early Modern, Monarchy

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🗓️ 30 March 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The modus tenendi parliamentum is a very unusual document from around this time. It describes how parliaments should be held, but also includes a number of very interesting claims about the primacy of the commons. It's interesting for the procedures and atmosphere around parliaments - as long as we take it with a pinch of salt. Also this week we hear and the political war with Lancaster, the physical war with the Scots and defeat at Bannockburn.

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0:30.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the history of England.
0:39.0	Episode 90.
0:41.0	How to hold a parliament.
0:44.0	So, last week we left everything in such a lovely place.
0:48.0	Galveston's broken body, hundreds of thousands dying from famine and disease.
0:53.0	You know, the normal medieval MO.
0:55.0	So, I thought we'd leave the chronology there just for a little bit longer.
0:59.0	Let's spend a bit of time talking about parliament.
1:02.0	After all, we spend an inordinate amount of time referring to the darn thing.
1:06.0	So it would be nice to have an image of how it all worked.
1:10.0	Then, before the end of the episode, we'll get the narrative restarted again
1:14.0	and you'll be pleased to hear that we should be able to end on another death so hurrah for that.
1:19.0	So, parliament.
1:21.0	It just so happens that there's a rather remarkable document which described in some detail
1:26.0	the ABC of how to hold a parliament.
1:29.0	The document is more than a bit controversial, so for a long time it was thought to be a forgery.
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