A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative
overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the
whole British Isles.
* An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor
Britain
* Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common
and what was distinct to its four constituent elements
* Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and
economic themes
* Describes differing political and personal experiences of the
time
* Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past
amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of
cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of
scientific inquiry
* Bibliographies point readers to further sources of
information
Mục lục
List of Plates x
List of Maps xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
Robert Tittler and Norman Jones
Part I Government and Politics.
Introduction 9
1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty 13
David Grummitt
2 The Rise of the Tudor State 29
Joseph S. Block
3 Elizabethan Government and Politics 44
David Dean
4 The Court 61
Retha Warnicke
5 Law 77
De Lloyd J. Guth
6 County Government in England 98
Steve Hindle
7 Town and City Government 116
Catherine F. Patterson
8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State 133
Steven G. Ellis
9 Politics and Government of Scotland 151
Jenny Wormald
10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession 167
Jane E. A. Dawson
11 Britain and the Wider World 182
David Potter
Part II Belief.
Introduction 203
12 Traditional Religion 207
Ben R. Mc Ree
13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath 221
Peter Cunich
14 Religious Settlements 238
Norman Jones
15 Catholics and Recusants 254
William Sheils
16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform
271
Peter Iver Kaufman
17 The Scottish Reformation 289
Michael Graham
Part III People and Groups.
Introduction 309
18 Rural Economy and Society 311
R. W. Hoyle
19 The Urban Economy 330
Alan Dyer
20 Metropolitan London 347
Joseph P. Ward
21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns
363
Robert Tittler
22 Women in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century 381
Anne Laurence
Part IV Culture.
Introduction 403
23 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain 407
Daniel Woolf
24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society 430
Alexandra F. Johnston
25 Portraiture, Politics and Society 448
Robert Tittler
26 Architecture, Politics and Society 470
Malcolm Airs
27 Music, Politics and Society 492
John Milsom
28 Science and Technology 509
Lesley B. Cormack
Bibliography 526
Index 563
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Robert Tittler is Professor of History at Concordia
University. His recent publications include The Reformation and
the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture c.
1540-1640 (1998) and Townspeople and Nation: English
Urban Experiences, 1540-1640 (2001). He is co-founder and
Chair of the Montreal British History Seminar and Chair of the
Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama.
Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah
State University. His recent publications include The Birth of
the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell, 1992) and
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation
(Blackwell, 2002).
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