Early Modern England 1485 - 1714 : A Narrative History

by Robert Bucholz (Loyola University of Chicago); Newton Key (Eastern Illinois University)

• ISBN13: 9780631213932
• ISBN10: 0631213937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Early Modern England is the first new survey of the Tudor-Stuart period in a quarter century. Written by two leading scholars. Assumes no prior knowledge of British history. Text is broken up with maps, illustrations, and genealogies; includes glossary. Focuses on what political, religious, and constitutional developments meant to ordinary people. Covers relevant events in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Places the Tudor-Stuart period in the context of what happened before and after. Accompanied by the student sourcebook Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714 - see http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/0631213910 For more information visit http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/earlymodernengland/

Author Biography

Robert Bucholz is Associate 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.Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on local politicking in Stuart England and Wales.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
List of Maps	ix
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
Conventions and Abbreviations	xiv
Introduction: England and its People, ca. 1485	1	(30)
1 Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485-1525	31	(32)
2 (Dis-)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525-1536	63	(25)
3 Reformations and Counter-Reformations, 1536-1558	88	(24)
4 The Elizabethan Settlement and its Challenges, 1558-1585	112	(21)
5 The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585-1603	133	(19)
6 Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603	152	(49)
7 The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642	201	(37)
8 Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642-1660	238	(27)
9 Restoration and Revolution, 1660-1689	265	(37)
10 War and Politics, 1689-1714	302	(38)
Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714	340	(37)
Notes	377	(13)
Glossary	390	(9)
Select Bibliography	399	(12)
Appendix: Genealogies	411	(4)
1 The Yorkists and Lancastrians	412	(1)
2 The Tudors and Stuarts	413	(1)
3 The Stuarts and Hanoverians	414	(1)
Index	415