Sources and Debates in English History, 1485 - 1714

by Key, Newton; Bucholz, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781405162760
• ISBN10: 1405162767
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-Stuart documents and illustrations, as well as extensive bibliographies and research and discussion guides. New edition contains 50 new documents, more explanatory text, illustrations, biographical background, and study questions Wide range of documents, from both manuscript and print sources, and from transcripts of private and public life Editorial material introduces students to the critical context; chapter bibliographies and questions allow ready integration into classroom, and research and source analysis assignments. Bibliography of Historians' Debates with the latest articles and essays Accompanies the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714

Author Biography

Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on provincial and metropolitan politicking in Stuart England and Wales. He is currently at work on a study of patrician/plebeian politics in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London.

Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993) and, with Sir John Sainty, Officials of the Royal Household 1660–1837 (2 volumes, 1997–8). He has written articles on Queen Anne and the court.

Table of Contents

List of Documents	p. vii
List of Plates	p. xiv
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Abbreviations	p. xix
Social Order and Tensions in Tudor England	p. 1
Great Chain of Being	p. 2
Social Order, Social Change, and the State	p. 9
Foreigners View English Society	p. 16
Historians' Debates	p. 19
Additional Source Collections	p. 21
Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge	p. 22
Edward IV, Richard III, and the Reassertion of Royal Power	p. 24
Claiming the Throne: Richard III, Henry VIII, and the Pretenders	p. 28
Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey	p. 37
Tudor Revolutions in England, Wales, and Ireland?	p. 41
Historians' Debates	p. 46
Additional Source Collections	p. 48
Religious Reformations	p. 49
The Old Church Remembered, Criticized, and Defended	p. 50
Henry VIII's Great Matter	p. 55
The New Church Established	p. 57
Conservative Reaction	p. 62
Protestant vs. Catholic under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I	p. 65
Historians' Debates	p. 74
Additional Source Collections	p. 77
Elizabethan Worlds	p. 78
Imperial Ambitions; Geopolitical Realities	p. 78
Between Jesuits and Puritans	p. 90
Elizabethan Performances	p. 96
Historians' Debates	p. 105
Additional Source Collections	p. 108
Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women	p. 109
Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions	p. 109
Good Wife, Bad Wife, Poor Wife, Witch	p. 119
Poor Laws and the Reform of Popular Culture	p. 127
Historians' Debates	p. 133
Additional Source Collections	p. 136
Early Stuart Church and State	p. 137
Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism	p. 137
Puritans and Anti-Puritans	p. 142
The Crisis of Parliaments	p. 148
The Personal Rule	p. 158
The Constitution Reformed or Deformed?	p. 160
Historians' Debates	p. 167
Additional Source Collections	p. 170
Civil War and Revolution	p. 171
War and Reaction in the Three British Kingdoms	p. 171
Constitutional Experiments, Regicide, and Reconfiguration	p. 184
Radicals, Sectaries, and Revolving New Notions	p. 193
Historians' Debates	p. 203
Additional Source Collections	p. 206
Religion, Restoration, and Revolution	p. 208
Dissenters, Catholics, and the Church of England	p. 208
Whig vs. Tory	p. 219
James II, William of Orange, and the Revolution of 1688-9	p. 229
Historians' Debates	p. 237
Additional Source Collections	p. 240
Later Stuart Politics, Thought, and Society	p. 241
Revolution Settlements Debated	p. 241
The Rage of Party	p. 259
Landed Interest versus Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Ideas	p. 266
Historians' Debates	p. 278
Additional Source Collections	p. 280
Bibliography of Online Document Archives	p. 282
Index	p. 285
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