Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Documents
Introduction
2. Absolutism
3. The Pokrovsky Controversy ( Christopher Hill and Brian Pearce)
4. Discussion on the Problem of Absolutism ( Academic Board of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
5. Theses for Discussion on Absolutism No 2: The Tudor State in English History ( Victor Kiernan)
6. Theses for Discussion on Absolutism, 4: A note on Feudalism ( Brian Pearce)
7. Comments on V. G. Kiernan™s Theses on Absolutism as far as these discuss Feudalism ( Rodney Hilton)
8. Note on Merchant Capital ( Victor Kiernan)
9. Note in Reply to Kiernan on Merchant Capital ( Maurice Dobb)
Note on the Origin of the Tudor State ( Victor Kiernan)
Brief Definition of Feudalism ( Rodney Hilton)
The Basis and Character of Tudor Absolutism ( History Group discussion)
Discussion on Absolutism ( Group Minutes July 1947)
Discussion on Absolutism ( continued) ( Minutes January 1948)
Postscript ( Absolutism) ( Victor Kiernan)
State and Revolution in Tudor and Stuart England ( 16th- 17th century section)
Documents 17- 26: Ideology 17. Some Notes on the Changes in the Mode of Production in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century ( Maurice Dobb)
18. The English Bourgeois Revolution and Ideology ( Christopher Hill)
19. Notes on Science and the Battle of Ideas in the English Revolution ( Stephen Mason)
20. Notes on Science and the Battle of Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ( 2) ( Stephen Mason)
21. Bourgeois Ideology after 1660 ( Christopher Hill)
22. Calvinism and the Bourgeoisie ( Christopher Hill & G de N. Clark)
23. Calvinism and the Transition from Medieval to Modern ( Victor Kiernan)
24. The role of ideology in the 16th and 17th centuries ( Minutes of the 17th Century Section)
25. The German Reformation ( Roy Pascal)
26. Notes on Religion and Class Struggles in France during the Sixteenth Century ( Mervyn James)
Appendix 1 Note on the Organisationof the History Group
Appendix 2 Extant Papers and Minutes Relating tothe Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturySection of The History Group1
Appendix 3 Discussion Meetings of the 16th/17thCenturies Section and Aggregate Meetingsof all Sections 1947-19581
Appendix 4 Biographical Appendix of Contributors onat least one Occasion to the Discussions ofthe 16th & 17th Century Section
Index