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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... population and its broad green pastures . The Venetian ambassador wrote in the reign of Henry VII that ' the population of this island does not appear to me to bear any proportion to her fertility and riches'.2 In an imaginary debate ...
... population and its broad green pastures . The Venetian ambassador wrote in the reign of Henry VII that ' the population of this island does not appear to me to bear any proportion to her fertility and riches'.2 In an imaginary debate ...
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... population was in 1547 , it had probably been growing from the early years of the century and was to grow more substantially , at an average rate of some 150,000 people every five years , until about 1640. By 1603 the population of ...
... population was in 1547 , it had probably been growing from the early years of the century and was to grow more substantially , at an average rate of some 150,000 people every five years , until about 1640. By 1603 the population of ...
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... population always threatened to rise too rapidly ahead of resources , producing recurrent and drastic mortality crises . English population increased gradually , the checks upon its growth operating in a relatively benign way through ...
... population always threatened to rise too rapidly ahead of resources , producing recurrent and drastic mortality crises . English population increased gradually , the checks upon its growth operating in a relatively benign way through ...
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England 1547-1603 Penry Williams. after 1600 the increase in population slowed as the resources available to feed the people neared their limit . Nine - tenths of the population lived in the countryside , either in small market towns ...
England 1547-1603 Penry Williams. after 1600 the increase in population slowed as the resources available to feed the people neared their limit . Nine - tenths of the population lived in the countryside , either in small market towns ...
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... population lived from pasture farming , incomes were usefully supplemented by fishing and fowl- ing . Altogether the fenland was a prosperous region with many well - to - do small farmers , few very wealthy ones , and still fewer ...
... population lived from pasture farming , incomes were usefully supplemented by fishing and fowl- ing . Altogether the fenland was a prosperous region with many well - to - do small farmers , few very wealthy ones , and still fewer ...
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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