| Edition |
2004 (Reprint)
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| Publication |
Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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| Description |
v, 122pDark Blue Spine
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| Series |
Cambridge Perspectives in History
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| Summary/Abstract |
The Tudor period was turbulent, characterised by political strife, religious change, wars, economic catastrophe, social disorder and rebellion. The author provides a lively account of these issues and examines the challenges they presented to the Tudor monarchs.
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| Contents |
The question of authority
The king's peace
The changing role of monarchy
Law and power
The courts
Justice within the counties
The parishes
Parliament
The church, religion and authority
The impact of the church on society
The church, law and government
The Reformation
The attitude of the government to dissent
'The great web' - informal authority
Society in disarray
A male-dominated society
Marriage
The family
Violence and discipline
The reformation of manners
The witch-craze
Poverty and vagrancy
The mid-Tudor crisis
The root causes
The succession
Faction
Religion
Society and the economy
The Celtic Nations
Wales; Ireland; Scotland
The consequences of Tudor policy
Elizabeth I and the recovery of Monarchy
The position in 1558
Administration under Elizabeth
The religious settlement
Foreign fears
Domestic dangers
Marriage and succession
Puritanism, the Church of England and the Queen's peace
The puritan challenge
Social conformity
Printing and new learning
The queen's peace
Tudor rebellions
Early troubles
Major rebellions
Two late rebellions
Who were the rebellions and what did they want?
Other channels - a stronger regime
The flowering of the Elizabethan state
Ruling class views of the poor
Coercion
Elizabethan commissions
Regulation of the poor
Problems and solutions
Select bibliography
Glossary
Chronology
Index
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| Standard Number |
0521626441 Pb.
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