A Companion to Tudor Britain

by Tittler, Robert; Jones, Norman L.

• ISBN13: 9780631236184
• ISBN10: 063123618X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Plates	x
List of Maps	xi
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
Robert Tittler and Norman Jones
PART I GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Introduction	9	(158)
1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty	13	(16)
David Grummitt
2 The Rise of the Tudor State	29	(15)
Joseph S. Block
3 Elizabethan Government and Politics	44	(17)
David Dean
4 The Court	61	(16)
Retha Warnicke
5 Law	77	(21)
DeLloyd J. Guth
6 County Government in England	98	(18)
Steve Hindle
7 Town and City Government	116	(17)
Catherine F. Patterson
8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State	133	(18)
Steven G. Ellis
9 Politics and Government of Scotland	151	(16)
Jenny Wormald
10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession	167	(15)
Jane E.A. Dawson
11 Britain and the Wider World	182	(21)
David Potter
PART II BELIEF
Introduction	203	(4)
12 Traditional Religion	207	(14)
Ben R. McRee
13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath	221	(17)
Peter Cunich
14 Religious Settlements	238	(16)
Norman Jones
15 Catholics and Recusants	254	(17)
William Shells
16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform	271	(18)
Peter Iver Kaufman
17 The Scottish Reformation	289	(20)
Michael Graham
PART III PEOPLE AND GROUPS
Introduction	309	(2)
18 Rural Economy and Society	311	(19)
R.W. Hoyle
19 The Urban Economy	330	(17)
Alan Dyer
20 Metropolitan London	347	(16)
Joseph P. Ward
21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns	363	(18)
Robert Tittler
22 Wunnen in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century	381	(22)
Anne Laurence
PART IV CULTURE
Introduction	403	(4)
23 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain	407	(23)
Daniel Woolf
24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society	430	(18)
Alexandra F. Johnston
25 Portraiture, Politics and Society	448	(22)
Robert Littler
26 Architecture, Politics and Society	470	(22)
Malcolm Airs
27 Music, Politics and Society	492	(17)
John Milsom
28 Science and Technology	509	(17)
Lesley B. Cormack
Bibliography	526	(37)
Index	563