A Companion to Tudor Britain

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Robert Tittler, Norman L. Jones
John Wiley & Sons, Jan 7, 2009 - History - 608 pages
A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles.
  • An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain
  • Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements
  • Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes
  • Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time
  • Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry
  • Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

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Contents

Culture
1
The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty 13
7
The Rise of the Tudor State
29
Elizabethan Government and Politics
44
The Court
61
Law
77
County Government in England
98
Town and City Government
116
The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform
271
The Scottish Reformation
289
People and Groups
309
The Urban Economy
330
Metropolitan London
347
Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns
363
Women in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century
381
Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain 407
405

Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State
133
Politics and Government of Scotland
151
Security and Succession
167
Britain and the Wider World
182
Belief
203
The Dissolutions and their Aftermath
221
Religious Settlements
238
Catholics and Recusants
254
Tudor Drama Theatre and Society
430
Portraiture Politics and Society
448
Architecture Politics and Society
470
Music Politics and Society
492
Science and Technology
509
Bibliography
526
Index
563
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About the author (2009)

Robert Tittler is Professor of History at Concordia University. His recent publications include The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture c. 1540–1640 (1998) and Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540–1640 (2001). He is co-founder and Chair of the Montreal British History Seminar and Chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama.

Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His recent publications include The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell, 1992) and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (Blackwell, 2002).

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