JE Neale

Sir John Ernest Neale FBA (born December 7, 1890 in Liverpool , † September 2, 1975 ) was an English historian who specialized in Elizabethan and parliamentary history. From 1927 to 1956 he was the Astor Professor of English History at University College London .

life and career

Neale was trained by the historian AF Pollard . His first professional calling was the Chair of Modern History at the University of Manchester , and he was to succeed his old mentor AF Pollard as Astor Professor of English History at University College London in 1927. He would hold this office until 1956. In 1955 , Neale was knighted , and on November 17, 1958 , he gave a lecture in Washington, DC, in memory of Elizabeth I , who came to the throne four hundred years earlier. From 1956 Neale taught as a professor emeritus at University College London.

He died in 1975 and was buried in Harrogate Cemetery and was married to Elfreda Skelton of Harrogate, with whom he had a daughter, Stella.

Positions

Neale was the leading Elizabethan historian of his generation. In the opinion of his fellow student and Neale's own PhD student, Patrick Collinson , Neale's biography of Elizabeth I “needs to be improved”.

His meticulous research uncovered the political power of the nobility in the Elizabethan House of Commons ( 1949 ), while his 1948 Raleigh lecture on "The Elizabethan Political Landscape" greatly expanded knowledge of the politics of domination. The two volumes on Elizabeth I and her Parliaments (published 1953 and 1957 ) examined the relationship between the Queen and Parliaments. These have been criticized by Sir Geoffrey Elton , who argued that the main preoccupation of these parliaments is the formation of laws and the passing of acts, not the conflict between the Crown and Parliament.

Neale's claim that these parliaments were a milestone in the development of the British Parliament has been criticized by medievalists such as JS Roskell . However, Patrick Collinson notes that the conflicts Neale wrote about did actually take place and that Neale's retelling is a significant chapter in English history.

Neale is best known for his dissertation on the Elizabethan Puritan Choir, in which he claimed that a group of Puritan MPs managed to influence Elizabeth on numerous political issues throughout her reign, including at the beginning. Neale is also recognized for his work in bringing to light new sources about England in the Tudo era and developing various methods of studying this period.

Memberships

• Curator of the London Museum
• Member of the Editorial Board of History of Parliament
• Member of the British Academy
• Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Scientific work

• Queen Elizabeth (1934)
• The Elizabethan Political Scene (1948)
• The Elizabethan House of Commons (1949)
• Elizabeth I and her Parliaments (1953 and 1957)
• Essays in Elizabethan History (1958)
• The Age of Catherine de Medici (1963)

literature

• Joel Hurstfield: John Ernest Neale, 1890-1975 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 63 , 1978, pp. 403-421 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} John Ernest Neale: Short biography of Neale . In: Queen Elizabeth I . Pelican, 1971.
2. ^ UCL: Neale lecture tonight. April 24, 2008, accessed January 10, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Neale, Sir John Ernest (1890–1975), historian | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved January 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England and Ireland | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved January 10, 2020 . 
5. ^ GR Elton: Parliament in the Sixteenth Century: Functions and Fortunes . In: The Historical Journal . tape 22 , no. June 2 , 1979, ISSN  0018-246X , pp. 255-278 , doi : 10.1017 / s0018246x79000018 .
6. ↑ JS Roskell: Perspectives in English parliamentary history . In: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library . tape 46 , no. 2 , March 1, 1964, ISSN  2054-9318 , p. 448-475 , doi : 10.7227 / bjrl.46.2.9 .
7. ^ Neale, John - Historian Profiles - Making History. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .