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A companion to Tudor Britain

A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of scholarship and debates about this period. The book looks at the British Isles in their entirety, exploring what was common and what was distinct to the sovereign kingdoms of England and Scotland, the client kingdom of Ireland, and the principality of Wales. An emphasis on major political, cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes is complemented by discussion of less common subjects, such as the landscape of the British Isles, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry. The contributors represent a broad range of historiographical and methodological perspectives. Their contributions define the current state of their fields and indicate the likely directions of future work
eBook, English, 2004
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2004
History
1 online resource (xvi, 588 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781405165624, 9781405137409, 9781280198724, 9780470997109, 9780631236184, 1405165626, 1405137401, 1280198729, 0470997109, 063123618X
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List of Platesx
List of Mapsxi
Notes on Contributorsxiii
Preface and Acknowledgementsxvii
Introduction1(8)
Robert Tittler and Norman Jones
PART I GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Introduction
9(158)
1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty
13(16)
David Grummitt
2 The Rise of the Tudor State
29(15)
Joseph S. Block
3 Elizabethan Government and Politics
44(17)
David Dean
4 The Court
61(16)
Retha Warnicke
5 Law
77(21)
DeLloyd J. Guth
6 County Government in England
98(18)
Steve Hindle
7 Town and City Government
116(17)
Catherine F. Patterson
8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State
133(18)
Steven G. Ellis
9 Politics and Government of Scotland
151(16)
Jenny Wormald
10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession
167(15)
Jane E.A. Dawson
11 Britain and the Wider World
182(21)
David Potter
PART II BELIEF
Introduction
203(4)
12 Traditional Religion
207(14)
Ben R. McRee
13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath
221(17)
Peter Cunich
14 Religious Settlements
238(16)
Norman Jones
15 Catholics and Recusants
254(17)
William Shells
16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform
271(18)
Peter Iver Kaufman
17 The Scottish Reformation
289(20)
Michael Graham
PART III PEOPLE AND GROUPS
Introduction
309(2)
18 Rural Economy and Society
311(19)
R.W. Hoyle
19 The Urban Economy
330(17)
Alan Dyer
20 Metropolitan London
347(16)
Joseph P. Ward
21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns
363(18)
Robert Tittler
22 Wunnen in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century
381(22)
Anne Laurence
PART IV CULTURE
Introduction
403(4)
23 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain
407(23)
Daniel Woolf
24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society
430(18)
Alexandra F. Johnston
25 Portraiture, Politics and Society
448(22)
Robert Littler
26 Architecture, Politics and Society
470(22)
Malcolm Airs
27 Music, Politics and Society
492(17)
John Milsom
28 Science and Technology
509(17)
Lesley B. Cormack
Bibliography526(37)
Index563
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