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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... institutions, long quite rigid, have yielded substantially and often quite fruitfully to interdisciplinary thinking on all fronts. Perhaps these tendencies have unfolded sooner and more naturally in universities outside the British ...
... institutions, long quite rigid, have yielded substantially and often quite fruitfully to interdisciplinary thinking on all fronts. Perhaps these tendencies have unfolded sooner and more naturally in universities outside the British ...
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... institutions, though not all the essays handle their subjects in traditional ways. The opening three chapters in Part I establish the basic narrative of political development at the national level and in England. We recognize that these ...
... institutions, though not all the essays handle their subjects in traditional ways. The opening three chapters in Part I establish the basic narrative of political development at the national level and in England. We recognize that these ...
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... institutional nature of the first serious studies of Henry's reign: writing in the early twentieth century, A. F. Pollard argued that Henry VII distanced himself from the petty squabbles of the nobility that had characterized the ...
... institutional nature of the first serious studies of Henry's reign: writing in the early twentieth century, A. F. Pollard argued that Henry VII distanced himself from the petty squabbles of the nobility that had characterized the ...
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... institutions through which he ruled. Traditionally, the study of the council and financial machinery has been the main focus of Tudor historians. Paradoxically it has now become accepted as a commonplace that it was in his bureaucracy ...
... institutions through which he ruled. Traditionally, the study of the council and financial machinery has been the main focus of Tudor historians. Paradoxically it has now become accepted as a commonplace that it was in his bureaucracy ...
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... institutions, men like Iohn, Lord Dynham, Henry's first treasurer of England between 1486 and 1501, were inveterate survivors who moulded themselves successfully to the very different politics of Edward IV's, Richard 111's and Henry ...
... institutions, men like Iohn, Lord Dynham, Henry's first treasurer of England between 1486 and 1501, were inveterate survivors who moulded themselves successfully to the very different politics of Edward IV's, Richard 111's and Henry ...
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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