A Companion to Tudor BritainRobert Tittler, Norman L. Jones A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles.
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... financial history of the Court of Augmentations and is Director of the Monastic Database Project. He has Written extensively on the dissolution of the monasteries and its aftermath. Iane E. A. Dawson is John Laing Lecturer in the ...
... financial history of the Court of Augmentations and is Director of the Monastic Database Project. He has Written extensively on the dissolution of the monasteries and its aftermath. Iane E. A. Dawson is John Laing Lecturer in the ...
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... finance (including taxation and the management of the crown's estate), rural society and the politics of the North of England. His most recent book is The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s (2001). Peter Iver Kaufman is ...
... finance (including taxation and the management of the crown's estate), rural society and the politics of the North of England. His most recent book is The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s (2001). Peter Iver Kaufman is ...
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... financial bonds to regulate his relations with the nobility and the greater gentry. This device, a form of suspended fine for the performance of some agreed task or as an insurance against bad behaviour, was a commonplace in late ...
... financial bonds to regulate his relations with the nobility and the greater gentry. This device, a form of suspended fine for the performance of some agreed task or as an insurance against bad behaviour, was a commonplace in late ...
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... financial power. While these bonds fulfilled a primarily political purpose, Henry also showed a ruthless determination to exact all the crown's rights as feudal overlord and to acquire more land under the crown's direct control. Henry's ...
... financial power. While these bonds fulfilled a primarily political purpose, Henry also showed a ruthless determination to exact all the crown's rights as feudal overlord and to acquire more land under the crown's direct control. Henry's ...
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... financial yield of the crown lands, so he sought to exploit fully their human potential. If this at times trampled on existing local structures of power it was a price the king, and it seems most of local society, was willing to pay ...
... financial yield of the crown lands, so he sought to exploit fully their human potential. If this at times trampled on existing local structures of power it was a price the king, and it seems most of local society, was willing to pay ...
Contents
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Part II Belief | 201 |
Part III People and Groups | 307 |
Part IV Culture | 401 |
Bibliography | 526 |
Index | 563 |
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