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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... significantly add to the ranks of the nobility; at the same time the existing nobility was allowed to dwindle through attainder and natural wastage. In the first years of the reign there was a small rush of peerage creations — six new ...
... significantly add to the ranks of the nobility; at the same time the existing nobility was allowed to dwindle through attainder and natural wastage. In the first years of the reign there was a small rush of peerage creations — six new ...
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... significant tests of Henry's kingship: at Stoke in 1487 when he defeated the pretender, Lambert Simnel; and at Blackheath ten years later when the king faced the Cornish rebels. Finance and Administration While the present state of our ...
... significant tests of Henry's kingship: at Stoke in 1487 when he defeated the pretender, Lambert Simnel; and at Blackheath ten years later when the king faced the Cornish rebels. Finance and Administration While the present state of our ...
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... significant innovation in the way in which government operated. Iohn Watts has argued that Henry's reign saw a removal of much of the personal character of late-medieval government. Using the blueprint for government. THE ESTABLISHMENT ...
... significant innovation in the way in which government operated. Iohn Watts has argued that Henry's reign saw a removal of much of the personal character of late-medieval government. Using the blueprint for government. THE ESTABLISHMENT ...
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... significance of the change that had occurred in the nature of royal government. The expansion of the royal household's ... significant continuities of personnel and institutions, men like Iohn, Lord Dynham, Henry's first treasurer of ...
... significance of the change that had occurred in the nature of royal government. The expansion of the royal household's ... significant continuities of personnel and institutions, men like Iohn, Lord Dynham, Henry's first treasurer of ...
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... significantly by the middle of the sixteenth century, and whatever one chooses to call these changes, they were ... significant debates among historians, particularly since 1953 when Sir Geoffrey Elton surveyed the constitutional ...
... significantly by the middle of the sixteenth century, and whatever one chooses to call these changes, they were ... significant debates among historians, particularly since 1953 when Sir Geoffrey Elton surveyed the constitutional ...
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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