The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.
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... Scotland of the blood- feud . Most commonly feuding persisted at a local level , usually involving barons , clan chiefs , and lairds , plus their tenants and servants , but sometimes with peers involved . Occasionally feuds achieved a ...
... Scotland lacked a godly prince like Edward or Elizabeth during the formative period of the Reformation . Mary queen of Scots was a minor , then an absentee in France , and finally a wicked idolatress , castigated by John Knox and ...
... Scotland , pp . 198–9 , 201 ; I.B. Cowan , Regional aspects of the Scottish Reformation ( London , 1978 ) , pp . 33–4 ; Goodare , State and society in early modern Scotland , p . 176 ; Whyte , Scotland before the industrial revolution ...
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 Steven G. Ellis No preview available - 2007 |