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The new, fully-updated edition of the popular introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period—offers fresh scholarship and improved readability.
Early Modern England 1485-1714 is the market-leading introduction to the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. This accessible and engaging volume enables readers to understand the political, religious, cultural, and socio-economic forces that propelled the nation from small feudal state to preeminent world power. The authors, leading scholars and teachers in the field, have designed the text for those with little or no prior knowledge of the subject. The book’s easy-to-follow narrative explores the world the English created and inhabited between the 15th and 18th centuries.
This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest scholarship on the subject, such as Henry VIII’s role in the English Reformation and the use of gendered language by Elizabeth I. A new preface addresses the theme of periodization, while revised chapters offer fresh perspectives on proto-industrialization in England, economic developments in early modern London, merchants and adventurers in the Middle East, the popular cultural life of ordinary people, and more. Offering a lively, reader-friendly narrative of the period, this text:
Early Modern England 1485-1714 is an indispensable resource for undergraduate students in early modern England courses, as well as students in related fields such as literature and Renaissance studies.
Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago, USA. He is the author of several books on English history including The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture and, with Joseph Ward, London: A Social and Cultural History 1550–1750.
Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He has authored articles and book chapters on feasting, preaching, politicking, and conspiring in early modern England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
They both have co-edited the companion sourcebook Sources and Debates in English History, 1485–1714.
List of Plates vii
List of Maps ix
Preface to the Third Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Preface to the First Edition xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
Conventions and Abbreviations xxiii
Introduction: England and its People, ca. 1485 1
1 Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485–1525 33
2 (Dis‐)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525–1536 67
3 Reformations and Counter‐Reformations, 1536–1558 95
4 The Elizabethan Settlement and Its Challenges, 1558–1585 121
5 The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585–1603 143
6 Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603 163
7 The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603–1642 221
8 Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642–1660 261
9 Restoration and Revolution, 1660–1689 291
10 War and Politics, 1689–1714 331
Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714 369
Chapter 0 ‘Medieval Prologue: the Wars of the Roses and their Antecedents,1377–1845’ Available online at www.wiley.com/go/bucholz/earlymodernengland
Glossary 411
Select Bibliography 421
Appendix: Genealogies 437
1 The Yorkists and Lancastrians 438
2 The Tudors and Stuarts 439
3 The Stuarts and Hanoverians 440
Index 441
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