Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946–1972

by G. R. Elton

• ISBN13: 9780521533188
• ISBN10: 052153318X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before. They are arranged in four groups (Tudor Politics and Tudor Government in Volume I, Parliament and Political Thought in Volume II) but these groups interlock. Though written in the course of some two decades, all the pieces bear variously on the same body of major issues and often illuminate details only touched upon in Professor Elton's books. Several investigate the received preconceptions of historians and suggest new ways of approaching familiar subjects. They are reprinted unaltered, but some new footnotes have been added to correct errors and draw attention to later developments.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. The terminal date of Caesar's Gallic proconsulate

Part I. Tudor Politics: 2. Renaissance monarchy?

3. Henry VII: rapacity and remorse

4. Henry VII: a restatement

5. The King of Hearts

6. Cardinal Wolsey

7. Thomas More, councillor

8. Sir Thomas More and the opposition to Henry VIII

9. King or minister? the man behind the Henrician Reformation

10. Thomas Cromwell's decline and fall

11. The good duke

12. Queen Elizabeth

Part II. Tudor Government: 13. The problems and significance of administrative history in the Tudor period

14. The rule of law in sixteenth-century England

15. State planning in early-Tudor England

16. Henry VII's council

17. Government by edict?

18. Why the history of the Early Tudor council remains unwritten

19. Henry VIII's Act of Proclamations

20. The Elizabethan exchequer: war in the receipt

General index

Index of authors cited.