Law and Government under the Tudors: Essays Presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton

by Edited by Claire Cross , David Loades , J. J. Scarisbrick

• ISBN13: 9780521893633
• ISBN10: 0521893631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England, designed as a tribute from a group of advanced students to their supervisor. Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whom the volume is dedicated, is internationally celebrated, and the most influential living historian of the period. Each essay reflects the special interest of the author, within the broader theme of 'Law and Government'. The book will be read by many who have been influenced by Professor Elton's teaching, but who may not necessarily be students or historians of Tudor England.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xviii
Wolsey and the Parliament of 1523	1	(18)
John Guy
The Act of Appeals and the English reformation	19	(12)
Graham Nicholson
Thomas Cromwell and the `brethren'	31	(20)
Susan Brigden
Henry VIII and the dissolution of the Secular Colleges	51	(16)
J. J. Scarisbrick
God's law and man's: Stephen Gardiner and the problem of loyalty	67	(24)
Rex Pogson
Bondmen under the Tudors	91	(20)
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Wales and England after the Tudor `union': Crown, principality and parliament, 1543--1624	111	(28)
Peter Roberts
Robe and sword in the conquest of Ireland	139	(24)
Brendan Bradshaw
The principal secretaries in the reign of Edward VI: reflections on their office and archive	163	(14)
C. S. Knighton
Philip II and the government of England	177	(18)
David Loades
Sin and society: the northern high commission and the northern gentry in the reign of Elizabeth I	195	(16)
Claire Cross
The crown, the gentry and London: the enforcement of proclamation, 1596--1640	211	(16)
Felicity Heal
Taxation and the political limits of the Tudor state	227	(30)
Roger Schofield
Bibliography of the writings of G. R. Elton, 1946--1986	257	(8)
Index	265