Tudor England
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Tudor England
Oxford University Press, 1988
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Bibliography: p. [514]-537
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This history of Tudor England provides an account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, including character studies of the monarchs and politicians, aiming to bring to life their personalities as well as their policies. The work takes into account the new debates on the progress of the English Reformation and on the strength or weaknesses of Tudor government at national and local levels. The narrative structure incorporates analytical discussion of the main themes and also contextual chapters on the economy and society and on political culture.
Table of Contents
- The advent of the Tudors
- the condition of England
- Henry VII
- Wolsey's ascendancy
- the break with Rome
- Henrician government
- politics, religion, war
- Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- Elizabeth I - the English Deborah
- Elizabethan religion
- privy council and parliaments
- the war with Spain
- the making of the Tudor state
- Elizabethan government
- political culture
- the Tudor "Fin de Siecle".
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