A companion to Tudor Britain

Summary: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

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Publisher:Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2004

Series:

Blackwell companions to British history

Genre:History

Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 588 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN:

9781405165624, 9781405137409, 9781280198724, 9780470997109, 9780631236184, 1405165626, 1405137401, 1280198729, 0470997109, 063123618X

DOI:10.1002/9780470997109

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:244175226

Subjects:

1485-1603

Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1485-1603 (Tudors) Guides, manuels, etc

Great Britain

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Handbooks, manuals, etc

HISTORY

Handbooks and manuals

History

Maison de Tudor Guides, manuels, etc

Tudor, House of

Tudor, House of Handbooks, manuals, etc

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Companion to Tudor Britain.

53138805

Contents:

List of Plates

List of Maps

Notes on Contributors

xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements

xvii

Introduction

(8)

Robert Tittler and Norman Jones

PART I GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Introduction

(158)

1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty

(16)

David Grummitt

2 The Rise of the Tudor State

(15)

Joseph S. Block

3 Elizabethan Government and Politics

(17)

David Dean

4 The Court

(16)

Retha Warnicke

5 Law

(21)

DeLloyd J. Guth

6 County Government in England

(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

Bibliography

526

(37)

Index

563

Notes:

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