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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... monarchs and ministers were key. Currently, as the scholars writing here suggest, the emphasis has shifted from the top and the centre to the peripheries. We are now asking how government and politics worked in practice, day to day, in ...
... monarchs and ministers were key. Currently, as the scholars writing here suggest, the emphasis has shifted from the top and the centre to the peripheries. We are now asking how government and politics worked in practice, day to day, in ...
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... that held nations together despite religious revolutions, despite child monarchs and childless queens, despite economic crises, and all the rest. CHAPTER ONE The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty DAVID GR. INTRODUCTION 1 I.
... that held nations together despite religious revolutions, despite child monarchs and childless queens, despite economic crises, and all the rest. CHAPTER ONE The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty DAVID GR. INTRODUCTION 1 I.
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... monarchy', therefore, was based upon bureaucratic innovation and a desire to make the nobility subservient to the royal will. From the mid-1950s, however, this orthodoxy was gradually eroded away and the first Tudor was relocated within ...
... monarchy', therefore, was based upon bureaucratic innovation and a desire to make the nobility subservient to the royal will. From the mid-1950s, however, this orthodoxy was gradually eroded away and the first Tudor was relocated within ...
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... monarchy. For example, the symbol of the crown in a hawthorn bush, evidence of God's judgement on the field at Bosworth, was not forgotten and became one of the standard Tudor icons, adorning the architecture commissioned by the king ...
... monarchy. For example, the symbol of the crown in a hawthorn bush, evidence of God's judgement on the field at Bosworth, was not forgotten and became one of the standard Tudor icons, adorning the architecture commissioned by the king ...
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... monarch — that it was done effectively and, more importantly, seen to be done effectively — was one of the necessary ... monarchy. This could happen at a number of levels: for example, in 1492 Henry took informal counsel on a very grand ...
... monarch — that it was done effectively and, more importantly, seen to be done effectively — was one of the necessary ... monarchy. This could happen at a number of levels: for example, in 1492 Henry took informal counsel on a very grand ...
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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