Format:
1 Online-Ressource (646 pages)
ISBN:
9780192543967
Series Statement:
New Oxford History of England
Content:
The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I-a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. Penry Williams produces an incisive and wide-ranging analysis that culminates in an assessment of England's part in the shaping of the New World
Content:
"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "General Editor's Preface" -- "Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Plates" -- "Maps and Tables" -- "Acknowledgements to Illustrations" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Note on Spelling" -- "1. Introduction" -- "1. The Face of Britain" -- "2. The Evidence" -- "3. 1547-1603: An Overview" -- "2. The Rule of Protector Somerset" -- "1. The Henrician Inheritance" -- "2. Somerset and Government" -- "3. Scotland" -- "4. Religion" -- "5. Social and Agrarian Policy" -- "6. 1549: Riot and Revolt" -- "7. The Fall of Somerset" -- "3. The Rule of Northumberland" -- "1. The Achievement of Power" -- "2. Government and Policy under Northumberland" -- "3. Religious Change" -- "4. Ireland" -- "5. The Succession Crisis" -- "4. The Reign of Mary Tudor" -- "1. The Installation of the Regime" -- "2. Wyatt's Rebellion and its Aftermath" -- "3. The Spanish Marriage and the Return to Rome" -- "4. Persecution and War, 1555-1558" -- "5. Marian Ireland" -- "6. Marian Religion" -- "7. Marian Politics" -- "5. The Structure of Government" -- "1. The Royal Court" -- "2. The Privy Council" -- "3. Parliament" -- "4. The Executive Machine" -- "5. Financial Institutions" -- "6. The Lawcourts" -- "7. Local Government" -- "8. The Royal Servants" -- "6. English Society" -- "1. Prices" -- "2. London" -- "3. Provincial Towns" -- "4. Rural Society" -- "5. Domestic Houses and Palaces" -- "6. Difficulties in Governing Town and Country" -- "7. The Establishment of Elizabethan Rule, 1558-1572" -- "1. Accession and Settlement, 1558-1563" -- "2. The Years of Peace, 1564-1568" -- "3. The Crisis Years, 1568-1572" -- "4. Ireland, 1558-1572" -- "8. The Road to War, 1573-1588" -- "1. France and the Netherlands, 1573-1578" -- "2. The Anjou Match and the Netherlands, 1578-1582" -- "3. Ireland, 1573-1588: Colonization and Rebellion
Content:
"4. Assassination Plots and the Spanish Threat, 1583-1585" -- "5. War and the Armada, 1585-1588" -- "9. The Final Years, 1588-1603" -- "1. Dramatis Personae" -- "2. Continental War and Domestic Faction, 1588-1595" -- "3. The Last Years of Lord Burghley, 1595-1598" -- "4. The Essex Rising, 1598-1601" -- "5. The End of the Reign, 1601-1603" -- "10. Art, Power, and The Social Order" -- "1. The Social Context" -- "2. Patronage" -- "3. Censorship" -- "4. Sources of Ideas and Imagery" -- "5. 'Feigning Notable Images'" -- "6. 'To Fashion a Gentleman'" -- "7. 'Degree, Priority, and Place'" -- "8. Elite and Popular Culture" -- "11. Religion in Elizabethan England" -- "1. Beginnings" -- "2. The Church Established" -- "3. The English Catholics" -- "4. The Puritans" -- "5. A Protestant Church? A Protestant Nation?" -- "12. Family, Kinsfolk, and Neighbours" -- "1. The Family" -- "2. The Making of Marriages" -- "3. Husband and Wife" -- "4. Parents and Children" -- "5. Kin and Lineage" -- "6. Neighbours" -- "13. England and the World" -- "1. The British Problem" -- "2. The Wider World" -- "3. England and Europe" -- "Glossary" -- "Genealogical Tables" -- "Chronology" -- "Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198228202
Additional Edition:
Print version Williams, Penry The Later Tudors : England 1547-1603 Oxford : OUP Oxford,c1998
Language:
English
