Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government

by G. R. Elton

• ISBN13: 9780521533164
• ISBN10: 0521533163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume continues the publication of Professor Elton’s collected papers on topics in the history of Tudor and Stuart England. All appeared between 1973 and 1981. As before, they are reprinted exactly as originally published, with corrections and additions in footnotes. They include the author's four presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society and bring together his preliminary findings in the history of Parliament and its records. Several of them, which appeared in various collections and Festschriften, have been difficult to find, and some are taken from locations in Germany and the United States unfamiliar to English readers. The eight lengthy reviews here republished examine some of the major questions in the history of the age and throw light on the principles of investigation which underlie the author’s own research.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part I. Papers: 33. Tudor government: the points of contact

34. The materials of Parliamentary history

35. parliament in the sixteenth century: functions and fortunes

36. Politics and the pilgrimage of grace

37. Taxation for War and peace in Early-Tudor England

38. Reform and the 'Commonwealth-Men' of Edward VI's reign

39. Arthur Hall, Lord Burghley and the antiquity of Parliament

40. English law in the sixteenth century: reform in an age of change

41. Crime and the historian

42. England and the continent in the sixteenth century

43. England und die oberdeutsche reform

44. Contentment and discontent on the eve of colonization

45. Thomas More

46. Thomas Cromwell redivivus

47. J. A. Froude and his history of England

48. The Historian's social function

Part II. Reviews

General index

Index of authors cited.