The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I—a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These internal and external struggles created anxiety in England, but by the end of Elizabeth's reign the nation had achieved a remarkable sense of political and religious identity. Penry Williams combines the political, religious and economic history of the nation with a broader analysis of English society, family relations, and culture, in order to explain the workings and development of the English state. The result is an incisive and wide-ranging analysis that culminates in an assessment of England's part in the shaping of the New World. |
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... English heralds the Frenchman declared that ' while France is a world of people . . . a great part of [ England ] is waste desert and savage ground , not inhabited nor th'earth tilled ' . By ' desert and savage ground ' he almost ...
... English heralds the Frenchman declared that ' while France is a world of people . . . a great part of [ England ] is waste desert and savage ground , not inhabited nor th'earth tilled ' . By ' desert and savage ground ' he almost ...
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... English population increased gradually , the checks upon its growth operating in a relatively benign way through changes in the age of marriage and the fertility rate . The explanation for the upturn in English population from the stag ...
... English population increased gradually , the checks upon its growth operating in a relatively benign way through changes in the age of marriage and the fertility rate . The explanation for the upturn in English population from the stag ...
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... English countryside were the creation of later centuries , when landowners competed with each other to achieve the picturesque . If we take 2,000 inhabitants to be the minimum size for a town , then town - dwellers made up only about 10 ...
... English countryside were the creation of later centuries , when landowners competed with each other to achieve the picturesque . If we take 2,000 inhabitants to be the minimum size for a town , then town - dwellers made up only about 10 ...
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... English noblemen were also crumbling . Except in the north of England many had already been taken over by the Crown ... English ruins and English history ' , Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute , 36 ( 1973 ) , passim ; Leland ...
... English noblemen were also crumbling . Except in the north of England many had already been taken over by the Crown ... English ruins and English history ' , Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute , 36 ( 1973 ) , passim ; Leland ...
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... English writers for descriptions of Ireland in the Tudor century ; and they saw the country with the eyes of soldiers and colonists . To soldiers Ireland was a theatre of war obstructed by inhospitable mountains , lakes , bogs , and ...
... English writers for descriptions of Ireland in the Tudor century ; and they saw the country with the eyes of soldiers and colonists . To soldiers Ireland was a theatre of war obstructed by inhospitable mountains , lakes , bogs , and ...
Contents
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3 The Rule of Northumberland | 60 |
4 The Reign of Mary Tudor | 86 |
5 The Structure of Government | 124 |
6 English Society | 160 |
7 The Establishment of Elizabethan Rule 15581572 | 229 |
8 The Road to War 15731588 | 271 |
11 Religion in Elizabethan England | 454 |
12 Family Kinsfolk and Neighbours | 497 |
13 England and the World | 520 |
Glossary | 540 |
Genealogical Tables | 543 |
Chronology | 547 |
Bibliography | 561 |
Index | 581 |
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