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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... Thomas Wolsey, 1512 to 1 529, and Thomas Cromwell, 1 532 to 1540, in turn monopolized political power. They shaped institutions to fit their style of leadership and determined which governmental institutions were to be used to express ...
... Thomas Wolsey, 1512 to 1 529, and Thomas Cromwell, 1 532 to 1540, in turn monopolized political power. They shaped institutions to fit their style of leadership and determined which governmental institutions were to be used to express ...
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... Thomas Cromwell had been Wolsey's chief lieutenant for several years. He came from the same social milieu that had produced his mentor; his father worked as a cloth worker in Putney, where Cromwell was born about 1485. He spent much of ...
... Thomas Cromwell had been Wolsey's chief lieutenant for several years. He came from the same social milieu that had produced his mentor; his father worked as a cloth worker in Putney, where Cromwell was born about 1485. He spent much of ...
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... Cromwell had little time to reflect upon the birth of another Tudor daughter ... Cromwell's statutory campaign articulated a new role for central government ... Thomas More swiftly followed Iohn Fisher, the obdurate bishop of Rochester ...
... Cromwell had little time to reflect upon the birth of another Tudor daughter ... Cromwell's statutory campaign articulated a new role for central government ... Thomas More swiftly followed Iohn Fisher, the obdurate bishop of Rochester ...
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... Cromwell's innovative hand. The chancellorship, a keystone of Wolsey's career, held no great appeal for Cromwell. After Thomas More's resignation, Sir Thomas Audley, a competent administrator with little political weight, succeeded to ...
... Cromwell's innovative hand. The chancellorship, a keystone of Wolsey's career, held no great appeal for Cromwell. After Thomas More's resignation, Sir Thomas Audley, a competent administrator with little political weight, succeeded to ...
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... Thomas Cromwell was singularly responsible for a 'revolution in government', many, as we might expect, have found cause to disagree. First David Starkey discovered the privy chamber. He has shown us the links between the personal and ...
... Thomas Cromwell was singularly responsible for a 'revolution in government', many, as we might expect, have found cause to disagree. First David Starkey discovered the privy chamber. He has shown us the links between the personal and ...
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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