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.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 67
Page 19
... household or by using the offices available on the crown lands, such as on the duchy of Lancaster estates. As the fifteenth-century political commentator Sir Iohn Fortescue noted: 'the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete ...
... household or by using the offices available on the crown lands, such as on the duchy of Lancaster estates. As the fifteenth-century political commentator Sir Iohn Fortescue noted: 'the myght off the lande, aftir the myght off the grete ...
Page 21
... household servants and companions in exile, demonstrating that the principal determinant of who counselled Henry lay with the king himself. The final way in which counsel was given in Henry's reign, however, is the most interesting and ...
... household servants and companions in exile, demonstrating that the principal determinant of who counselled Henry lay with the king himself. The final way in which counsel was given in Henry's reign, however, is the most interesting and ...
Page 24
... household, whose intervention had been decisive at Bosworth, was executed for his complicity in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. His was said to have in his possession a Yorkist livery collar, granted to him as steward of Edward, prince ...
... household, whose intervention had been decisive at Bosworth, was executed for his complicity in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. His was said to have in his possession a Yorkist livery collar, granted to him as steward of Edward, prince ...
Page 25
... household's role in government and greater intervention in local affairs remained a constant feature of Tudor government. This must have been so because those who had a stake in royal government, including, significantly, men like ...
... household's role in government and greater intervention in local affairs remained a constant feature of Tudor government. This must have been so because those who had a stake in royal government, including, significantly, men like ...
Page 29
... household, and the Council. Any study of government must at some point take up the question, 'Why should anybody obey anyOneP'. What was the nexus of power within society, and how was power made manifest from the top downward and the ...
... household, and the Council. Any study of government must at some point take up the question, 'Why should anybody obey anyOneP'. What was the nexus of power within society, and how was power made manifest from the top downward and the ...
Contents
1 | |
7 | |
Part II Belief | 201 |
Part III People and Groups | 307 |
Part IV Culture | 401 |
Bibliography | 526 |
Index | 563 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1ames 1ohn authority bishops borough Britain British Isles burghs Cambridge Catholic centre chamber chantries church civic conflict Court crown culture difficult dissolution drama earl Early Modern England early Tudor economic Edinburgh Edward elite Elizabeth Elizabeth’s reign Elizabethan England English English Reformation fifteenth figures financial find first five France French Gaelic gentry guilds Henry VIII Henry’s historians History household houses Iames influence institutions Iohn Ireland Irish king king’s kingdom kirk land livery companies London Lord marriage Mary Mary of Guise Mary’s medieval monarchs office officers officials ofthe Oxford parish parishioners parliament patronage play political population portraits privy council Protestant Protestantism queen reflected Reformation religion religious Renaissance role royal Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Reformation significant sixteenth century social Society Thomas Thomas Cromwell tion Tittler towns traditional Tudor dynasty Tudor England Tudor period urban Welsh William Wolsey women