Kyle co-edits history of early political communication in England
Chris
R. Kyle, associate professor of history, is the co-editor of Connecting Centre and Locality: Political Communication in Early
Modern England, published recently by Manchester University Press. The
collection, co-edited by Jason Peacey, a professor of early modern British
history at University College London, explores the dynamics of local and
national political culture in 17th-century Britain, with an emphasis on political
communication.
Authors
in the book examine connections between politics in metropolitan centers —
London, Whitehall, and Westminster — and politics in localities; and document
patterns and processes that served those connections. The collection is intended
to serve dialogue between strands in recent historiography, and between the
work of social and political historians of Britain’s early modern period. The
essays in the book bring together scholarship from some of the most important
voices in the field to examine how the center and locality were connected by
the circulation of documents, the interactions between national and local
officials, and the movement of people throughout England and abroad. Kyle’s
contribution to the volume includes the co-edited introduction and an article
on the history of Lent in early modern England.
Kyle,
who joined Maxwell in 2000, pursues research interests in Tudor and Stuart
parliamentary history, lobbying, and political communication in England more
broadly. He is the author of Theater of State: Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart
England, published in 2012 by Stanford University Press; and in 2015 edited
a collection of essays on Tudor and Stuart Parliaments, published by John Wiley
and Sons. He previously edited two other books, Parliament, Politics and Elections (Cambridge University Press,
2001) and, also with Peacey, Parliament
at Work (Boydell and Brewer, 2002). In 2005, he organized a symposium about
the Gunpowder Plot at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where he later
co-directed an exhibition on the early evolution of English newspapers. He is a
past recipient of Syracuse University’s Meredith Teaching Award and a fellow of
the Royal Historical Society; and his fellowships include long-term awards by
the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D.C. He is currently finishing a book on the political
culture of early modern England titled The Visible State: Proclamations and
Political Communication in Early Modern England.
You can find more information about Kyle’s new
book on the publisher’s website.
06/24/20