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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... sixteenth - century England sheep outnumbered humans by two or three to one . Foreign visitors were struck by the country's sparse population and its broad green pastures . The Venetian ambassador wrote in the reign of Henry VII that ...
... sixteenth - century England sheep outnumbered humans by two or three to one . Foreign visitors were struck by the country's sparse population and its broad green pastures . The Venetian ambassador wrote in the reign of Henry VII that ...
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... century and was to grow more substantially , at an average rate of some 150,000 people every five years , until ... sixteenth century and figures are at best approximate and at worst unreliable . POPULATION 3 the quinquennium 1561-5 , at ...
... century and was to grow more substantially , at an average rate of some 150,000 people every five years , until ... sixteenth century and figures are at best approximate and at worst unreliable . POPULATION 3 the quinquennium 1561-5 , at ...
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... sixteenth century are made difficult by paucity of evidence ; but in early eighteenth - century France birth and death rates both seem to have been around 40 per 1,000 . English society was , by the standards of early modern Europe ...
... sixteenth century are made difficult by paucity of evidence ; but in early eighteenth - century France birth and death rates both seem to have been around 40 per 1,000 . English society was , by the standards of early modern Europe ...
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... sixteenth century : thin crops of barley and oats were grown in small enclosed fields , while most of the uplands ... century did the combined appetites of sheep and of industry demolish the trees . Where sheep are almost exclusively ...
... sixteenth century : thin crops of barley and oats were grown in small enclosed fields , while most of the uplands ... century did the combined appetites of sheep and of industry demolish the trees . Where sheep are almost exclusively ...
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... sixteenth century than in Marshall's day , the general impression would otherwise have been the same.14 In almost every county of England and Wales the deer parks of nobles and gentlemen caught the eye . John Leland , travelling in the ...
... sixteenth century than in Marshall's day , the general impression would otherwise have been the same.14 In almost every county of England and Wales the deer parks of nobles and gentlemen caught the eye . John Leland , travelling in the ...
Contents
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31 | |
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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