The Reign of King Pym took mid 17th‐century studies in a new direction when it was published in 1941. Anglo‐American collaboration in the field in the 1920s and 1930s had been rooted in making available in print to a scholarly readership one of the private diaries of the Long Parliament. J.H. Hexter's book, produced at a time when Anglo‐American collaboration was temporarily on hold under pressure of global war, changed the direction of academic discourse by its format (monograph), content (a detailed study of a brief period in a unique parliament) and tone (brash and unrestrained by the idiom of the academy). The book scoped out the power of John Pym, but also its limitations, and introduced to scholarly debate a categorisation of political groupings in 1642–3 that held sway for 40 years. The first direct attacks on Hexter's work, beginning in the 1980s, were weakened by overstatement. In the forthcoming History of Parliament volumes, Pym's signal importance is reasserted, but Hexter's concept of the ‘middle group’ is found to be untenable.

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皮姆国王和他的“快乐，草率的小丑”

皮姆国王统治当它于1941年出版时，它以一个新的方向进行了17世纪中期的研究。英美在1920年代和1930年代在这一领域的合作植根于向学术读者提供印刷品，这是长议会的私人日记之一。 。约翰·赫克斯特（JH Hexter）的书是在全球战争的压力下暂时中断英美合作之时出版的，通过其形式（专着），内容（在一个独特的议会中对简短时期进行的详细研究），改变了学术论述的方向。和语调（粗俗，不受学院习语的束缚）。该书扩大了约翰·皮姆（John Pym）的力量，但也限制了它的局限性，并在学术讨论中引入了在1642–3年间摇摆了40年的政治集团分类。从1980年代开始，对赫克斯特著作的第一次直接攻击，被夸大了的说法削弱了。在即将出版的国会史卷中，皮姆的信号重要性得到了重申，但发现赫克斯特关于“中间群体”的概念站不住脚。