Suggested preparatory reading:

Paul Seaward, ‘Why the History of Parliament Has Not Been Written’, Parliamentary History, 40 (2021), 5-24

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire, trans. Thomas Dunlap (2015), Introduction

Paulina Kewes, Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves, and Paul Seaward, ‘Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700’ and other blogs in the series, intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/recovering-europes-parliamentary-culture-1500-1700#