Routledge, 2016. — 214 p. The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — 332 p. In this massive best seller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself. In Foundation the chronicler of...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 224 p. Brings to life one of Tudor England’s most overlooked key players responsible for bringing about the marriage of her son Lord Darnley and Mary, Queen of Scots. As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynasty. A favorite of her uncle King...
Manchester University Press, 2013. — 256 p. Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious roles (conducting church services, offering spiritual advice and instruction) to a surprisingly wide array of literary functions (writing...
Columbia University Press, 1961 - 558 C. Introduction 1. the central government. i Prologue 7. ii The Central Executive. iii The Royal Household. iv The Revenue Departments. v Other Departments of State. vi Justice and the Law Courts. vii Parliament. viii The Government in Operation. Conditions of entry and service. i Appointment and Promotion. ii Reversion. iii Tenure 106. iv...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 581 p. Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her pet monkeys than politics or her children, and long pitied as 'The Winter Queen', the direct ancestor of Elizabeth II was widely misunderstood. Nadine Akkerman's biography...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 288 p. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 288 p. It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, during the turbulent decades of...
Penguin Books, 2024. — 448 p. From the acclaimed author of The Watchers , the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-master. Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state,...
Penguin Books, 2024. — 448 p. From the acclaimed author of The Watchers , the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-master. Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state,...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 417 p. This is the first book exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. It offers, for the first time, modernised versions of the most significant early modern texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650, the key period in English history for demonic possession. The nine stories...
Day One Publications, 2005. — 104 p. The year is 1605 and England is in crisis as terrorists plot to blow up the King, Royal Family and Parliament in one gigantic explosion in Westminster! If the plot had succeeded, then England, Europe and the subsequent history of the world would have been very different, for there would have been no King James Bible, no Pilgrim Fathers, and...
Fordham University Press. 2005. 324 pages. ISBN: 082322421X The title Translating Investments, a manifold pun, refers to metaphor and clothing, authority and interest, and trading and finance. Translation, Latin translatio, is historically a name for metaphor, and investment, etymologically a reference to clothing, participates both in the complex symbolism of early modern...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 272 p. Series Editors’ Foreword List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet From Maurice to Muhammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism Andrew Moran Islam, Race, and Political Legitimacy in Ralegh’s The Life and Death of Mahomet Dennis Austin Britton...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. — 232 p. Maurice Ashley is less certain that the Revolution was entirely Glorious and altogether progressive in the Whig sense, and his new account profits from the research and new interpretations of recent years. The author concentrates on the mechanics of revolution in the 1680s to account for the timing and the form of the events of 1688-1689....
Cambridge University Press, 1979. — 272 p. The fact that London was parliamentarian rather than royalist was one of the principal reasons for the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War. This book reinterprets London's role. It examines the relation of the municipality and of the City fathers as business magnates with both of the early Stuart kings and their parliaments,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 339 p. This volume examines English central government and the royal court under King Charles II (1660-1685). The author focuses on the structure of government and its methods, as well as its policies, tasks, successes, and failures. A sequel to two earlier books by the same author, this study makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 262 p. Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which has long been dominated by theories of...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 341 p. If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the...
Pen & Sword History, 2018. — 195 p. Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament. But what if it wasn't like that at all? How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catholics were able to plot for months with...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 191 p. A major contribution to debates about the origins of the Civil War, this study of English forests and hunting from the late sixteenth-century to the early 1640s explores their significance in the symbolism and effective power of royalty and the nobility in early modern England. Blending social, cultural and political history, Dan Beaver...
Clarendon Press, 1991. — 312 p. Beddard here studies the events and issues which dethroned the Catholic James II and enthroned the Protestant William and Mary. Beginning with the dynastic revolution in England, he examines the dependent kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland, the American colonies, the United Provinces, and the continental European background. Themes explored include...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — 220 p. Sir Walter Ralegh created a powerful public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison. This new study not only offers a much-needed analysis of these neglected political writings, but also demonstrates the ways in which his readers modified Ralegh's public identity in a series of fascinating posthumous reinterpretations. By...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 656 p. A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of...
Gates of Vienna Books, 2003. — 228 p. In The Last Rally, Belloc narrates with clarity and vigor a central episode in the decline of the English Monarchy. Restored to the throne following the interlude of Cromwell's "Commonwealth," Charles II devoted his life as King of England to maintaining the integrity of the throne against all the forces arrayed against it: the power of the...
Routledge, 2022. — 254 p. This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and across private and public...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Henry VIII's wives, his watershed break with Rome, Mary's 'bloody' persecution of Protestants and Elizabeth's fearless reign have been immortalised in history books and the public consciousness. This book widens the scope of established historiography by examining the dynamics of Tudor power and assessing where power really lay. By...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Henry VIII's wives, his watershed break with Rome, Mary's 'bloody' persecution of Protestants and Elizabeth's fearless reign have been immortalised in history books and the public consciousness. This book widens the scope of established historiography by examining the dynamics of Tudor power and assessing where power really lay. By...
New York: Schoke Books, 1963. — 288 p. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century. Economic and Social Development. Political and Religious Conditions. Ket’s Insurrection. The “Utopia” of Lord Chancellor Bacon . Early Years of Charles I’s Reign. John Lilburne’s Youth and First Persecutions. Parliament and the Monarchy. Parliament and the National Army. Presbyterians,...
New York: Schoke Books, 1963. — 288 p. England up to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Economic and Social Development Political and Religious Conditions. Ket’s Insurrection The “Utopia” of Lord Chancellor Bacon Early Years of Charles I’s Reign. John Lilburne’s Youth and First Persecutions Parliament and the Monarchy Parliament and the National Army. Presbyterians,...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 261 p.
This is the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with a new generation of historians working in the field, present...
Routledge, 2018. — 295 p. Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare unsettles ideas of the human, yet ultimately...
Routledge, 2013. — 372 p. After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or since. Whilst his popular image is firmly associated with his appetites - sexual and gastronomic - scholars have long recognized that his reign also ushered in profound changes to English society and culture, the legacy of which endure to this day. To help...
Ashgate Publishing, 1999. — 255 p. This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-1583. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes they introduced. Indeed the English Reformation as a historical event was written, and rewritten, by Henrician, Edwardian, Marian and Elizabethan...
Manchester University Press, 2004. — 264 p. This book is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510–1580 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era. Through readings of work by Edmund Spenser,...
Penguin Books, 1950. — 319 p. The author shows the England which the first Tudor so dubiously claimed, and the last handed over so securely to her successor, as a living and growing society in which each problem presented the possibility of various solutions and no conclusion, was to contemporaries foregone. In taking the reader back to the sixteenth-century scene, he has...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 428 p. How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 428 p. How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet ? In...
London, Routledge, 2005. — 50 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). Dr. Bliss’s pamphlet discusses in detail the Restoration settlement as both an expedient solution to the problems facing King Charles II and the political nation in 1660 and as a basis for a long term solution to the problems of relations between crown and parliament, public, finance and religion. These are the principle...
Brill, 2016. — xvi, 385 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 16). Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson (d. 1613), best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired in his own day for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson. It maps his connections with his contemporaries, reconstructs his reading,...
Boydell and Brewer, 2014. — 348 p. London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and publishers engaged in the earliest, illicit...
Boydell and Brewer, 2014. — 348 p. London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and publishers engaged in the earliest, illicit...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 460 p. This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century. The main emphasis is on the impersonal forces which shapedthe uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups – it is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author’s approach does not...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 327 p. Addressing the dynamics of power in early modern societies, this book challenges the existing tendency to see past societies in terms of binary oppositions--such as male/female, rich/poor, rulers/ruled. Drawing on recent social theory, the essays offer a series of micro-sociologies of power in early modern society, ranging from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 392 p. In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Notably, the British became increasingly aware of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 323 p. This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 176 p. He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with women; James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, had the life many would have envied in the seventeenth century. Monmouth lived in an age that was on the cusp of modernity. He lived through some of the biggest...
Routledge, 2017. — 395 p. The Sidneys rank amongst the most influential families in early modern England, and can count amongst their number many leading lights of the Tudor and Stuart period. From the Elizabethan poet and soldier Philip, to the republican Algernon, the Sidney family were intimately bound up with the political, cultural and courtly life of early modern England....
Verso, 2003. — 750 p. Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London’s merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging...
Amberley, 2015. — 336 p. Did you ever wonder what the Tudors ate and drank? What was Anne Boleyn's favorite tipple? Which pies did Henry VIII gorge on to go from a 32 to a 54-inch waist? The Tudor Cookbook provides a new history of the Tudor kitchen, and of both the sumptuous - and more everyday - recipes enjoyed by rich and poor, all taken from authentic contemporary sources....
Penguin Books, 2006. — 448 p. No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain have resonance with even the least historically minded readers. Above all Brigden sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of...
Longmans, Green and Company, 1934. — 212 p. Approach To England. The Capital. The Unit Of Life. Religio Medici. Habit And Pastime. The Means Of Life. The English Polity. List Of Abbreviations. Appendix Of References.
Allen Lane, 2005. — 186 p. — ASIN B002RI9W9S. 400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family. This book draws on the expertise of different writers to bring...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 472 p. The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. Written by two leading scholars and...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 472 p. The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. - Written by two leading...
3nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 512 p. 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,...
The Teaching Company, 2003. — 277 p. This course will survey the history of England during the early modern period, from 1485 to 1714. During this time, that country transformed itself from a feudal and relatively minor European state, not much more powerful than contemporary Denmark, into a constitutional monarchy, the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth, and what...
The History Press, 2013. — 160 p. The five Tudor monarchs – Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I – were some of the most influential rulers in British history. This volume explores all aspects of life in the Tudor age, from life at court (and at the grand country estates where Queen Elizabeth paused during her famous ‘progresses’) to the day-to-day...
University of Toronto Press, 1969. — 290 p. Between 1460 and 1540 the development of merchant shipping was of vital importance to the growth of England as a European power. In this work Miss Burwash offers a complete history of the English merchant marine in the late middle ages and early renaissance period. Her account includes a description of the size and design of the ships,...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 390 p. Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe. The creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics. This book combines cultural definitions of politics with a wider exploration of institutional, military, diplomatic and economic concerns with a view to providing a more comprehensive understanding of...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 254 p. Guiding readers through the diverse forms of natural theology expressed in seventeenth-century English literature, Katherine Calloway reveals how, in ways that have not yet been fully recognized, authors such as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan describe, promote, challenge, and even practice...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 278 p. Shakespeare and the Nobility examines, for the first time, how Shakespeare was influenced by the descendants of the aristocratic characters in his early history plays. The Henry VI trilogy and Richard III are among the first plays in the English dramaturgy that reflect the lives and activities of the ancestors of sixteenth-century...
Cambridge University Press, 1982. — 223 p. Richard Boyle (1566-1643) is recognised more for the achievements of his children than for his own accomplishments. But in his own lifetime his advancement from an obscure Kentish background to become the wealthiest English landowner of his generation was a matter of the greatest interest and curiosity; all the more so because Boyle...
Routledge, 2017. — 248 p. Cantor describes the evolution of the English early modern countryside during the years which witnessed the disappearance of the medieval landscape and which led to the radical changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 411 p. This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England sought to make the best of their lives in a society that excluded or marginalized them in almost every sphere. It argues that networks of close friends ('gossips') provided invaluable moral and practical support, helping them to shape their own lives and...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 272 p. This volume of essays explores the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of early modern England. The enduring controversy about the nature of parliament informs nearly all debates about the momentous religious, political and governmental changes of the period – most significantly, the character of the Reformation and the...
McFarland, 2011. — 224 p. The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This multi-disciplinary work explores how writers of the Tudor era addressed the subject in response to the profound changes of the Reformation and the creative explosion of the Elizabethan period. Topics include how...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1977. — 79 p. The Problem of Internal Trade. The Profile of the Internal Trades. The Means of Trade. The Conduct of Trade. Fluctuations and Intervention. Internal Trade and the Economy, 1500–1700.
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 473 p. For many Catholics, the Elizabethan "Golden Age" was an alien concept. Following the criminalization of their religion by Elizabeth I, nearly two hundred Catholics were executed, and many more wasted away in prison during her reign. Torture was used more than at any other time in England's history. While some bowed to the pressure of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 159 p. Understand how Thomas' life shaped the recovery and success of the Howard family through his military prowess and navigation of the political landscape of Tudor England. Thomas Howard, 2nd duke of Norfolk, lived a remarkable life spanning eighty years and the reigns of six kings. Amongst his descendants are his granddaughters, Anne Boleyn...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 704 p. The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years—exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England. Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the...
Pegasus Books, 2025. — 400 p. A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked - yet hugely influential - figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting. Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 299 p. Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 216 p. Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of Exeter at the very height of the English Civil War. The hostilities had separated her parents and her mother was on the run from Parliamentary forces when she gave birth with only a few attendants on hand to give her...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 248 p. This study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign. It investigates how the flow of information was managed and suppressed at the centre, as well as how James I attempted to mislead a variety of audiences about his policies and intentions. It also...
TAN Books, 1988. — 432 p. Though written by a Protestant (between 1824 and 1827), this book has been repeatedly reprinted by Catholic publishers because of the tremendous light it sheds on English history from Henry VIII (1509) thru George III (1820), showing that England was better off before the Reformation than after. Unabashedly pro-Catholic and a real eye-opener!
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. — 364 p. — (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 34). This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment. This volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and...
Routledge, 2000. — 255 p. This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 259 p. Excise Taxation in Context . English Excise Taxation. Fiscal Sociology and Economic Thought. State Formation or State Building? Notes on Sources and Methodology. Chapter Organization. The Introduction of the Excises . A Matter of ‘Necessity?’ Introduction and Response. Administration by Legislation. The Origins of the Committee for Regulating the...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 284 p. This book is a study of centre-local interaction, based upon the experience of the people of an English county, during a very turbulent period in their history. The work revolves around: the relationship between centre and locality, and the partisan use of local institutions and sentiment for 'national' ends. Dr Coleby combines...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 240 p. The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one, James was a deep theological thinker, but he also inspired a superstitious frenzy which resulted in the North Berwick witch hunt and trials in...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 240 p. The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one, James was a deep theological thinker, but he also inspired a superstitious frenzy which resulted in the North Berwick witch hunt and trials in...
The History Press, 2021. — 208 p. No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII: famous for six marriages; for dissolving the monasteries and creating the Church of England; and for the ruthless destruction of those who stood in his way. But Henry was also an ardent patron of the arts whose tapestries and paintings, purchased in pursuit of glory and magnificence, adorned...
Stanford University Press, 2004. — 520 р. This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in pre-revolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscripts and printed material to reconstruct and contextualize a forgotten but highly significant antinomian religious subculture that evolved at the margins of the early...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -411p. Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the nature of moral and political theory in early modern England through an examination of widespread arguments about office. The vocabulary of office-olding and abuse was sufficiently supple and pervasive for us to infer a general presupposition of office cohering the whole...
Agora Books, 2012. — 119 p. On the fifth of November every year, children all over England delightedly light bonfires, swish sparklers and gobble toffee apples in celebration of Bonfire Night, and the death of Guy Fawkes. But what really happened on the night of the Fifth of November, 1605, when the plot to blow up King and Parliament was discovered? And what led up to so...
Routledge, 2021. — 268 p. This book, first published in 1977, looks at the two peasant revolts that occurred in 1549, in the troubled period following the death of Henry VIII. The uprisings reveal a harsh background of economic and social injustice, intensified at the time by inflation. Peasants in North Devon rose against the imposition of the English Prayer Book, and with the...
University of Cambridge, 2008. — 286 p. This study, focused upon government and politics within the royal court, reassesses James VI & I's practice of kingship in England during the period of George Villiers's rise as royal favourite (c. 1615-c. 1622). In the first chapter, a new account of James's thinking on the nature and duties of kingship is presented. The practical...
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. — (Countries in the Early Modern World Series). — xxv, 346 p., illus. Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700...
Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003. — 591 p. Stuart Britain and the Wider World The Multiple Kingdoms of Britain and Ireland: The 'British Problem' Allan I. Macinnes The Making of Great Britain and Ireland Toby Barnard Asia, the Atlantic and the Subjects of the British Monarchy Nicholas Canny The Changing Face of Stuart Britain The Rise of the Fiscal State Michael J. Braddick The...
Routledge, 2017. — 651 p. The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 254 p. Introduction: the politics of crown finance in England Jacobean crown finance Kingship and the making of fiscal policy Crown finance and the new regime, 1603–1608 The refoundation of the monarchy, 1609–1610 The failure of Jacobean kingship, 1611–1617 Crown finance and the renewal of Jacobean kingship, 1617–1621 The incomplete reformation of finance...
Routledge, 1996. — 280 p. Patricia Crawford demonstrates how the consideration of gender is central to our understanding of religious history. Women and Religion has three broad themes: the role and experience of women in the religious upheaval in the period from the Reformation to the Restoration; the significance of religion to contemporary women, focusing on the range of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 416 p. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also the unruly...
Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 257 p. In this exploration of the social context of reading and writing in pre-industrial England, David Cressy tackles important questions about the limits of participation in the mainstream of early modern society. To what extent could people at different social levels share in political, religious, literary and cultural life; how vital was...
Routledge, 2005. — 272 p. The shattering of the Roman Catholic church and the establishment of the Protestant church of England, during the English Reformation, affected all aspects of English life. Bringing together a collection of sources, including narratives, reports, church documents and parliamentary proceedings, Religion and Society in Early Modern England charts the...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 361 p. Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. Drawing on local texts and narratives he reveals how a series of troubling and unorthodox happenings--bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and...
Routledge, 2014. — 177 p. This book traces the development of land communications in England under the Tudors and Stuarts, and illustrates its influence on social life. It deals with the roads, the types of transport, the work of packmen and waggoners, the use of foot posts, the establishment of rapid hackney stages, the posting system, the Royal Posts and their privileges, and...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) — ISBN10: 0521450438 ISBN13: 9780521450430 Sir Matthew Hale (1609-76) was the best-known judge of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, but he nonetheless rose to be Lord Chief Justice under King Charles II. His constitutional ideas are of interest both to lawyers and to historians...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 295 p. This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England, designed as a tribute from a group of advanced students to their supervisor. Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whom the volume is dedicated, is internationally celebrated, and the most influential living historian of the...
Brill, 2019. — 317 p. — (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought 1). This cross-disciplinary collection of essays examines – for the first time and in detail – the variegated notions of democracy put forward in seventeenth-century England. It thus shows that democracy was widely explored and debated at the time; that anti-democratic currents and themes have a...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. For 400 years, the true story behind the fall of Sir Walter Ralegh, his conviction for high treason and his eventual beheading has been shrouded in mystery. Was he deliberately set up by the brilliant but untrustworthy Sir Robert Cecil? Why did his friend Lord Cobham denounce him at his trial? And how could this towering figure of the...
Cambria Press, 2011. — 374 p. Lord Ferdinando Stanley was the fifth earl of Derby, a leading claimant to the throne. Considered a man who had everything, he was also the patron of the company of players which was fortunate enough to include William Shakespeare. At the time, Shakespeare was an up-and-coming junior member who had just begun to write plays for them--plays which...
University of Cambridge, 2022. — 338 p. Two high-profile events called attention to the threat the Papacy posed to temporal authority in early seventeenth-century England: first the Gunpowder Plot (1605), in which Catholics attempted to blow up the English Parliament, including the king, and then, shortly afterwards, the Venetian Interdict controversy (1606–7), a dispute over...
Oxford University Press, 1963. — 482 p. Mr. Godfrey Davies's volume The Early Stuarts covers the period from the accession of James 1 to the Restoration of 1660. It is based on his own researches and on an outstandingly wide and detailed knowledge of the sources. Since its first publication it has held the field as a standard textbook. The keynote of the seventeenth century was...
Macmillan Education, 1973. — 64 p. The Old Trades. The Opening of Southern Trades. England as Importer. Trade Beyond Europe. Trade Organisations and Institutions.
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 379 p. The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-1649 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers. Far from ending in...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 496 p. This comprehensive study of political and religious conflicts examines the challenge to Restoration institutions by Protestant dissent in the London of Charles II's reign. It presents liberty of conscience as the greatest political issue of the Restoration and explains how the contest between dissenters and Anglicans contributed to the...
Ballantine Books, 2007. — 384 p. Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor. December 1602. After forty-four years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth...
Vintage Digital, 2018. — 432 p. Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever. Charles I’s reign is one of the most dramatic in history,...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 330 p. David Dean's book offers the first detailed account of the last Elizabethan parliaments. Examining a wide range of social and economic issues, law reform, religious and political concerns, Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England addresses the importance of parliament both as a political event and as a legislative...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 252 p. This collection celebrates and evaluates the seminal research of Margaret Spufford, a leading historian of early modern English social and economic history. Spufford played a crucial role in the broadening of English social and cultural history, shifting the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the "other 98%" in...
Thistle Publishing, 2017. — 590 p. The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one king, James, driven from his palace by night while another, William, rode in at the head of a foreign army; the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place England decisively on the path to freedom,...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 337 p. Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long captured the interest of historians and literary scholars, the later period has suffered from...
Routledge, 1996. — 152 p. This Seminar Study introduces students to England's foreign policy during the reigns of the Tudor monarchs. In this succinct introduction the author addresses the key questions facing students - for example, to what extent did monarch or minister make policy. Each reign is analysed in turn providing a narrative and explanation of the major events and...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 232 p. In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and anti-papal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals...
Bloomsbury Continuum, 2012. — 256 p. In this wide-ranging book, Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation, and the ways in which that Reformation has been written about. Tracing the fraught history of religious change in Tudor England, and the retellings of that history to shape a protestant national identity, once again he emphasizes the...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. — 480 p. The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the...
Routledge, 2021. — 165 p. Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 1558–1642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, their political significance, and the internal politics of the Catholic community. The Elizabethan religious settlement of 1559 ostensibly outlawed Catholicism in England, while subsequent events such as the...
Routledge, 2015. — 455 р. Charles Carlton's biography of the `monarch of the Civil Wars' was praised for its distinctive psychological portrait of Charles I when it was first published in 1983. Challenging conventional interpretations of the king, as well as questioning orthodox historical assumptions concerning the origins and development of the Civil Wars, the book quickly...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 84 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). The King James I has traditionally been portrayed as a foolish and unpleasant man. However, the last two decades have seen a rehabilitation of James I by historians, who have begun to appreciate that in some areas, in particular foreign policy and religion, he pursued sensible policies and achieved a considerable degree of...
Routledge, 2020. — 194 p. This book offers the first major reassessment of the life and work of Sir Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, for over a century. Arlington was one of Charles II’s chief ministers and the book charts his early years through to the careers of his descendants, examining his political development as a courtier, diplomat, linguist and politician. Authored by...
Brill, 2017. — 384 p. — (Rulers & Elites 9). The lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and...
Macmillan Education, 2001. — 447 p. Prologue. The Wars of the Roses. The Restored Monarchy 1461–1509: Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII. The Reign of Henry VIII, 1509–47. The Henrician Reformation. Mid-Tudor Turbulence, 1547–58: Edward VI and Mary I. The Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558–1603. The Coming of the Stuarts: James I, 1603–25. The Reign of Charles I to 1640. The Coming...
Routledge, 2014. — 348 p. The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often, indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four nations is at the heart of some of the liveliest historical research today. In this major...
Cambridge University Press, 1974. — 413 p. The Terminal Date of Caesar's Gallic Proconsulate. Tudors Politics . Renaissance Monarchy? Henry VII: Rapacity and Remorse. Henry VII: a Restatement. The King of Hearts. Cardinal Wolsey. Thomas More, Councillor. Sir Thomas More and the Opposition to Henry VIII. King or Minister? The Man behind the Henrician Reformation. Thomas...
Routledge, 2018. — 554 p. Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in 1955, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental...
Routledge, 2022. — 348 p. The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents' Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament's financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated...
Auburn University, 2010. — 138 p. This thesis looks at public debate and ceremony in the early reign of Charles I from 1625 to 1633. It analyzes the various uses of the language of “public” and “private” in the publically aired religious and political debates of the period in order to explore the nature of authority and kingship at the time. By examining the debates that...
Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 348 p. England's relationship with the Baltic trading area has remained a generally neglected aspect of English commercial development in the seventeenth century. The spectacular colonial ventures have traditionally attracted more historical attention, although the Baltic trade in this period was more fundamental to the English economy: it...
Brill, 2018. — ix, 405 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 22). The centrality of the King James Bible to early modern culture has been widely recognized. Yet for all the vast literature devoted to the masterpiece, little attention has been paid either to the scholarly scaffolding of the translation or to the erudition of the translators. The present...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 272 p. Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women. Illustrated with a fascinating array of objects and artworks, the book follows...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 279 p. An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history. Finn’s excellent study is one of the first of its kind to engage with early chronicle sources’ complex depictions of historical royal women. Her lucid explanation of the influence of generic traditions of romance narratives and de casibus tragedy on...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 295 p. Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 261 p. England witnessed an overall rising standard of living in the seventeenth century. Still very much an agrarian society, approximately 80% of the population lived in rural settlements, and even citydwellers were in walking distance of farmland. However, as the the century came to an end a growing proportion of the population was living in urban...
Harvard University Press, 1961. — 412 p. The Un-English English Newspaper: 1620–1642. The First English Newspapers: November 1641 to January 1643. Childhood: January to September 1643. Early Adolescence: I. September 1643 to July 1644.. Early Adolescence: II. August 1644 to July 1645. Growing Pains: August 1645 to May 1646. Late Adolescence: June 1646 to September 1647. Coming...
Anchor, 2014. — 384 p. In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed...
Dell Publishing, 1996. — 415 p. In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly...
Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1979. — 540 p. Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography...
Random House Value Publishing, 1988. — 612 p. Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish...
Hachette, 2010. — 448 p. With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot. 'Told with impressive scholarship...
Knopf, 1984. — 544 p. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widowed? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the...
Vintage, 1993. — 496 p. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to produce a male heir; and Catherine Parr is revealed as a religious reformer with the good sense to tack with the treacherous winds...
Greenwood Press, 1996. — 640 p. A ready reference for general readers, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and scholars, this volume contains 320 entries by 80 experts, covering a broad range of topics, plus a lengthy chronology and extensive bibliography. The entries are based on current scholarship and are followed by pertinent references. Among the items included...
University of St Andrews. School of History, 2014. — 249 p. This thesis is the first attempt to provide an assessment of Scottish-Jacobean foreign relations within a European context in the years before 1603. Moreover, it represents the only cohesive study of the events that formed the foundation of the diplomatic policies and practices of the first ruler of the Three Kingdoms....
University of Rochester Press, 2001. — 314 p. Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession. Over three hundred men (and a...
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012. 350 p. An overview of a wide range of aspects of maritime social history in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Traditionally, the history of English maritime adventures has focused on the great sea captains and swashbucklers. However, over the past few decades, social historians have begun to examine the less well-known seafarers who were on...
Routledge, 2011. — 270 p. First published in 1962, Frank Smith Fussner's introduction to the revolution in English historical writing and thought during the period of the renaissance and reformation (1580-1640) is an influential and thoroughly-researched work. It offers an introduction not only to the context of the period and the important English historians of the era, but...
Routledge, 2021. — 248 p. Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin is a unique exploration of why early modern noblewomen starved themselves, how they understood their behaviour, and how it was interpreted and received by their contemporaries. The first study of its kind, the book adopts an interdisciplinary and highly detailed approach to...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 391 p. Crime and law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England, however, attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and to recover their...
London Routledge, 1997. — 116 p. — ISBN10: 0415129664; ISBN13: 978-0415129664 — (Lancaster Pamphlets) A concise history of events in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the 1640s. Gaunt explores the relationship between the kingdoms and assesses whether the wars can be seen as a single conflict or inter-related, separate conflicts. Time line Introduction: An English...
Foreword by Vincent Strudwick. — Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. — 564 p. The argument of this book is that the supporting hermeneutic of the biblical doctrine of royal Supremacy was the interpretive priority and prescriptive function assigned to Old Testament narrative by apologists of the national church. After surveying the development of the doctrine of Royal Supremacy from the...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational institution in Tudor London. Every layperson inhabited one and they interacted with their neighbors...
Routledge, 2019. — 202 p. Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies. The parish was a foundational institution in Tudor London. Every layperson inhabited one and they interacted with their neighbors...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 217 p. The first expansive study of how when the Popish Plot of 1678 came to light, fears of an Irish Catholic rebellion amongst Ireland's uneasy Protestant elite, who dominated over the Catholic majority population, were manipulated in England in an attempt to block the Catholic Duke of York from succeeding to the throne.
Liveright, 2017. — 368 p. On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the death of Elizabeth I. A celebrated master of British social and domestic history, Ruth Goodman draws on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor...
Routledge, 2022. — 172 p. This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography. Amid the upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars, gender was political. Sexual difference and women’s roles were...
Routledge, 2012. — 200 p. This concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography. Amid the upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars, gender was political. Sexual difference and women’s roles were...
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James VI and the Elizabethan legacy
James I: religion and the Church
James I: Parliaments and finances
Buckingham and foreign policy, 1618–1628
Charles I: rule with Parliaments, 1625–1629
Charles I: rule without Parliaments, 1629–1640
Ireland under Sir Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
The coming of civil war
Routledge, 1985. — 182 p. This excellent short survey looks at the workings of parliament under the first four Tudor monarchs. After an introductory first section which looks at parliament's medieval origins, the author then considers all aspects of early parliamentary history - including the historiography of the early Tudor parliaments, membership and attendance, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 321 p. In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of Parliamentary history. This is a systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 362 p. - Offers important new perspectives on local government information systems and punishment in early modern England - Draws on extensive research in almost three dozen archives across England - Discusses cultures of precision and anti-ambiguity, public display and public representation of authority, public punishment of petty crime,...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 362 p. - Offers important new perspectives on local government information systems and punishment in early modern England - Draws on extensive research in almost three dozen archives across England - Discusses cultures of precision and anti-ambiguity, public display and public representation of authority, public punishment of petty crime,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 544 p. A major study of the transformation of early modern London. By focusing on policing, prosecution, and the language and perceptions of the authorities and the underclasses, Paul Griffiths explores the swift growth of London and the changes to its cultures, communities, and environments. Through a series of thematic chapters he maps problem...
Oneworld Publications, 2022. — 400 p. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed as something existing only in books and song--those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric...
Oneworld Publications, 2021. —400 p. Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I’s courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they’re dismissed as something existing only in books and song – those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric...
The History Press, 2017. — 256 p. This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of history. Join the author as she explores evocative historical sites, including the magnificent...
Routledge, 2017. — 237 p. This title was first published in 2002. The purpose of the book is to highlight the close links between England and France and the role of England and Englishmen in Renaissance Europe. It provides a statement of current research by the leading scholars in that field and should serve as a basis both for teaching and for further work. It is necessary to...
Routledge, 2010. — 388 p. This book examines the concept of public interest against the background of English politics from the Civil War to the coming of the Hanoverians. These years witnessed both the rise of the modern notion of the public interest as a part of ordinary political language and the growth of a social philosophy of individualism. The new ideas challenged the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 416 p. The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his regime stood his new men, low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and...
Profile Books, 2019. — 264 p. Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded (the Royal Exchange, Gresham College) and in the City of London's...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 129 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of the period, from beginning to end, he considers Tudor...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 235 p. How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, 'reformation' was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But...
Routledge, 2007. — 432 p. Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for...
Arden Shakespeare, 2004. — 315 p. — (Arden Shakespeare: Arden Critical Companions). Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy. Shakespeare and Reniassance Politics...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 300 p. The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent, for they were not confined to the countryside but penetrated into every borough and city. English society was composed largely of landlords and tenants. It follows that to understand the nature of this society the relationship...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0521526043; ISBN13: 978-0521526043. This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. England's civil wars in the 1640s broke apart a society that had been used to political consensus. Though all sought unity after the wars ended, a new kind of politics developed--one...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 288 p. In a series of wide-ranging chapters on politics in thought, word and deed, twelve colleagues of the late Mark Kishlansky reconsider the history of the English Revolution, engaging and often challenging Kishlansky's own conclusions.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 152 p. — (New Directions in Book History). — ISBN: 978-3-030202-74-7. This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely...
Routledge, 1993. — 249 p. The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Queen Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He deals not only with high politics and with the organisation of the new parties, but also with the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 607 p. A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise in rebellion against Stuart rule. Both James VI and I and his son Charles I were reforming...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 586 p. The late 17th century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris...
The History Press, 2014. — 227 p. Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was 'a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting.' Henry was considered a demi-god by his subjects, so each woman he chose was someone who had managed to stand out in a crowd of stunning ladies. This book offers an insight into the love life of Henry, and the twelve women who knew the man behind the mask.
Haus Publishing, 2021. — 220 p. Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of...
Sutton Publishing, 1994. — 196 p. In this general study of the gunpowder plot in its historical context, Alan Haynes uncovers the truth about this Catholic conspiracy. Who was Guy Fawkes and how did he come to be below the chamber of the House of Lords in the first hour of 5 November 1605? What desperation drove those involved to plan a horrific massacre of the Protestant royal...
Knopf, 2023. — 512 p. A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England...
Knopf, 2023. — 512 p. A fresh, exciting history of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England...
Routledge, 2012. — 328 p. In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy. Focussing on the scene in England, the articles provide detailed examinations of the religious...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 280 pages. ISBN: 1405195606. A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. - Written in a clear and accessible style for an undergraduate level audience. - Gives an overview of the period’s history as well as an understanding of the...
University of North Carolina Press, 1983. — 359 p. Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy. She then describes public reaction to royal policy and court Catholicism and the use parliamentary leaders made of anti-Catholicism from 1640 to 1642. In this first study to focus on both the perceptions and...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007. — 304 p. When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone become ruler of England and Scotland. Once shy and retiring, an awkward stutterer, he grew in stature and confidence under the guidance of the Duke of Buckingham; his marriage to Henrietta of Spain, originally planned to end the conflict between the...
Routledge, 2011. — 368 p. There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution. Stimulating, vivid and provocative, his...
Routledge, 1980. — 369 p. The years between 1603 and 1714 were perhaps the most decisive in English history. During this period modern English society and a modern state began to take shape, and England's position in the world was transformed. There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 350 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the middling sort in social and political regulation, especially through the use of the law. It discusses the evolution of...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 244 p. This volume explores the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century England before, during, and after the civil wars and revolution of the mid-century. The distinguished contributors represent a variety of disciplines and methodologies. They share, however, an intense concern with the relationship between...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. Dominion: England and its Island Neighbours c.1500-1707 is a rich narrative history of England's increasing dominance over the cluster of territories that became known as the British Isles. It brings alive a period and a geography remarkable for repeated religious wars and a long colonial struggle as well as for London's emergence as a...
Bloomsbury, 1999. - 368 p.
In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict and draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 318 p. Contested elections became a fact of political life for the first time in early-17th-century England as the gentry pressed for seats in a parliament which was growing increasingly important. Dr Hirst examines politics from the point of view of the ordinary man before the Civil War. He asks what an election and being represented meant:...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 290 p. Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 224 p. Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the royal family, had risen to the rank...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 224 p. Bess of Hardwick was one of the most extraordinary figures of Elizabethan England. She was born the daughter of a country squire. But by the end of her long life (which a recent redating of her birth suggests was even longer than previously thought) she was the richest woman in England outside the royal family, had risen to the rank...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 411 p. This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485 accession of Henry VII to the 1603 death of Elizabeth I. Though many have gravitated toward this period for its high drama and national importance, the book offers a new narrative by focusing on another facet of the British...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 368 p. Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 364 p. A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire. Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 368 p. Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 392 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History). This book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the Civil War in Warwickshire, examining administration, religion and politics in their social context. The focus is mainly on the landed élite, but the importance of relationships between members of the élite and their social...
Routledge, 2011. — 232 p. The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. Exposed here are the contractual underpinnings of...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
Robert Hutchinson made his debut as a popular historian with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful LAST DAYS OF HENRY VIII. His biography of Sir Francis Walsingham, ELIZABETH'S SPY MASTER was published in 2006. This new biography works as both a sequel and 'prequel' to his existing books, telling the dramatic story of the Dukes of...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
Robert Hutchinson made his debut as a popular historian with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful LAST DAYS OF HENRY VIII. His biography of Sir Francis Walsingham, ELIZABETH'S SPY MASTER was published in 2006. This new biography works as both a sequel and 'prequel' to his existing books, telling the dramatic story of the Dukes of...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
Robert Hutchinson made his debut as a popular historian with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful LAST DAYS OF HENRY VIII. His biography of Sir Francis Walsingham, ELIZABETH'S SPY MASTER was published in 2006. This new biography works as both a sequel and 'prequel' to his existing books, telling the dramatic story of the Dukes of...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. — 432 p. After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries and culminating in...
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. — 360 p. Robert Hutchinson investigates the rise and fall of Henry VIII's most notorious minister. The son of a brewer, Cromwell rose from obscurity to become 'Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of England, Keeper of the Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer'. He manoeuvred his way to the top by intrigue, bribery and sheer force...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 356 p. Hutchinson delves into the forces that shaped Henry VIII from his birth in 1491 to the birth in 1533 of his daughter Elizabeth. Hutchinson is admirable at pulling out amusing tidbits from the primary sources he obviously plumbed to write this breezy account of how Henry's cloistered youth influenced his public role as monarch. The early Tudors...
Robinson, 2011. — 352 p. The second title in the new four volume Brief History of Britain series - a new look at the Tudors and Stuarts by one of Britain's leading historians. From the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of Charles I, after the Civil Wars of 1642-48, England was transformed by two Dynasties. Firstly the Tudors, who won the crown on...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 48 p. — ISBN 0198203632. An entertaining book that breaks new scholarly ground, The Rise and Fall of Merry England explores the rituals which marked the passage of the year in late medieval and early modern England.
Routledge, 2021. — 200 p. Originally published in 1977, this book investigates the controversial question as to whether England has seen two industrial revolutions, whether economic changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England deserve to be distinguished as a period in which an economic ‘revolution’ nearly took place, but eventually aborted. The book considers...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 400 p. Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage of princely rulers and their consorts, acquired celebrity as the...
Penguin, 2016. — 117 p. Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and in his complicated mix of lasciviousness, cynicism and luxury. His father's execution and his own many years of exile made him a guarded, curious, unusually self-conscious...
Allen Lane, 2021. — 704 p. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as "Devil-Land": a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
Allen Lane, 2021. — 704 p. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as "Devil-Land": a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 356 p. This is the first full account of one of the most famous quarrels of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall (1594–1663). This analytical narrative interprets that quarrel within its own immediate and complicated historical circumstances, the...
Brill, 2015. — 315 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 244/9; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 244/9). In this study of Art and Diplomacy we see the relationship between renaissance design in decorated borders and the messages conveyed in the texts of royal letters from the English kings to Russia and rulers in the Far East. These are...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 351 p. This original book examines the concept of the Devil in English culture between the Reformation and the end of the English Civil War. Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in human affairs changed as a consequence of the Reformation, and at its impact on religious, literary and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1979. — 232 p. The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in Europe. The preceding period of the Protectorate and the civil wars came to be known as the Interregnum (1649–1660). The term Restoration is also used to describe the period of...
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1972. — 358 p. The Glorious Revolution of November 1688 refers to the deposition of James II and VII, king of England, Scotland and Ireland and replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III of Orange, stadtholder and de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic. A term first used by John Hampden in late 1689, historian Jeremy Black suggests...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 253 p. A large proportion of late medieval people were accused of some kind of misdemeanour in borough, manorial or ecclesiastical courts at some stage in their lives. The records of these courts bring us as close to ordinary townspeople and villagers as it is possible to get, and show what behaviour was considered reprehensible in men and women. This...
Boydell Press, 2006. — 252 p. A large proportion of late medieval people were accused of some kind of misdemeanour in borough, manorial or ecclesiastical courts at some stage in their lives. The records of these courts bring us as close to ordinary townspeople and villagers as it is possible to get, and show what behaviour was considered reprehensible in men and women. This...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 383 p. When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. "We shall pursue and bring to their due punishment those bloody traitors who were either actors or contrivers of that unparalleled and...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 544 p. During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the center for major advances in the sciences, the theatre, architecture, trade and ship-building that paved the way for the creation of the British Empire. At the heart of this activity was the King, whose return to...
Routledge, 2013. — 465 p. In this work, Professor Jordan continues his study of the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is concerned with the momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as reflected in the charities which were established by gifts and bequests. This...
Routledge, 2013. — 619 p. This study documents a momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The author has examined gifts and bequests left for charitable causes over a period of nearly two centuries. in ten English counties, in order to assess the changing pattern of social aspirations and...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 232 p. In this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 340 p. Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641) is one of the great controversial figures of English history. For many he was 'the Great Apostate' who abandoned the cause of liberty in the 1620s. For others he was a heroic figure who died on the scaffold as the King's good servant. In making a judgement about Strafford, his years of...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 480 p. James, Duke of Monmouth, the adored illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the...
Continuum, 2008. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-847252-25-7. In the year that the English monarchy was abolished, the Prince of Wales's governor posed the poignant question: what was it that made kings different from their subjects? The answer to him was obvious, and the word that described it was ‘ceremony'. From crown wearing in the Middle Ages to the jubilees of modern times the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. — 336 p. In the year that the English monarchy was abolished, the Prince of Wales's governor posed the poignant question: what was it that made kings different from their subjects? The answer to him was obvious, and the word that described it was ‘ceremony'. From crown wearing in the Middle Ages to the jubilees of modern times the English Monarchy has...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 192 p. — (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 13). This exciting new study examines cases of male witchcraft from the English Atlantic world in order to explore the kinds of masculine behaviour exhibited by men accused of witchcraft, the way this behaviour shaped accusations of witchcraft against them, and the responses such men evoked in the...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 504 p. Published in 1966, The Stuart Constitution at once established itself as the standard documentary textbook for courses in English seventeenth-century history in schools (A-level), polytechnics, and universities, and one which at the same time offered an individual revisionist outlook on many of the problems involved. For the second...
Brill, 2013. — 239 p. — (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 166). A popular culture of persuasion fostered by the Reformation promoted a displacement of late-medieval sacramental culture through argument, textual interpretation, exhortation, reasoned opinion, and moral advice in both pulpit and press. This collection of essays addresses the dynamic interaction of...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 272 p. Parliamentary Selection examines the process by which members of Parliament were chosen in the period between the reigns of Elizabeth I and William III. By focusing on the nature of the selection process, rather than on its results, Professor Kishlansky uncovers a fundamental transformation in assumptions about political behaviour in the...
Penguin Books, 1997. — 400 p. The seventeenth century, writes Mark Kishlansky, was "a wheel of transformation in perpetual motion," a period of political and religious upheaval that defined the nation for decades to come and remains critical for understanding the nation today. Beginning with the accession of James I and concluding with the death of Queen Anne, this compelling...
The History Press, 2006. — 224 p. Pepys never resumed the personal Diary which he abandoned in 1669 fearing he was going blind. He was one of the greatest accidental historians, never intending to record for posterity, but for amusement. This book makes these diaries available to the general reader. These documents enhance the picture of Pepys as a politician and civil and...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 320 p. King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This does a great disservice to the precocious and remarkable boy-king. Even with his early...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 320 p. King Edward VI tends to be glossed over in the historical narrative of the Tudor dynasty. His achievements during his brief time on the throne are eclipsed by the tumultuous and fascinating reigns of his grandfather, father and two half-sisters. This does a great disservice to the precocious and remarkable boy-king. Even with his early...
Concordia University, 2016. — 78 p. When Henry Tudor defeated king Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, he claimed the English throne as Henry VII by right of conquest and dynastic descent. Although the crown worked assiduously to diffuse this perception and ensure that the Tudors’ claim appeared legitimate, many of Henry VII’s subjects perceived him as a usurper and a tyrant...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 256 p. This collection explores the dynamics of local/national political culture in seventeenth-century Britain, with particular reference to political communication. It examines the degree to which connections were forged between politics in London, Whitehall and Westminster, politics in the localities and the patterns and processes that...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 388 p. King's Restoration of England (1660) witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literature, music, architecture and science. At the centre of the burgeoning cultural life of the age was John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. The scandalous life of England's most notorious libertine, the Earl of Rochester, portrayed by Johnny Depp in The Libertine Restoration...
Head of Zeus, 2016. — 304 p. In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell's Protectorate. In this book, Alex Larman paints a fascinating portrait of a country in the throes of social, political and cultural change following the...
Random House Publishing, 2003. — 352 p. The diary which naval clerk Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 is one of our greatest historical records and a major work of English literature," writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day....
London: Routledge, 2007. — 155 p. Covering the period from 1547 to 1558, The Mid Tudors explores the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Stephen J. Lee examines all the key issues debated by historians, including the question as to whether there was a mid-Tudor crisis. Using a wide variety of sources and historiography, Lee also looks at the Reformation and the Counter Reformation, as...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 248 p. After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660 and 1688 was to open oneself to charges of sedition or treason. This book uses approaches from the field of memory studies to examine...
Oxford University Press, 1987. — 260 p. Between the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the Union of Parliaments in 1707, numerous proposals were made to strengthen relations between England and Scotland. Here, Brian P. Levack draws on a large body of pamphlet literature, state papers, and parliamentary records to explore the 17th- and early 18th-century schemes to unite the...
University of Nebraska Press, 2009. — 326 p. In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the normal male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 225 p. Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.
Routledge, 2021. — 195 p. Originally published in 1973, this book provides a detailed history and analysis of Tudor dynastic problems from their origin in 1460 when Richard of York asserted his claim to the crown, to 1571 when Elizabeth I’s second Treasons Act virtually established parliamentary statute as the constitutional way to settle questions of succession. The book deals...
Amberley Publishing, 2012. — 293 p. Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - Elizabeth of York died in childbirth, two of Henry VIII's queens were beheaded for infidelity,...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 384 p. The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events...
Ballantine Books, 2009. — 384 p. Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and whose heirs would...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 359 p. This ground-breaking volume fills a major historiographical gap by providing the first detailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments from September 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, the...
Pen and Sword History, 2003. — 208 p. The Tudors by the Numbers provides a statistical approach to looking at the dynasty we think we know so well. The Tudors by Numbers is a fresh look at a well-known dynasty - through its numbers. Take a new look at old friends by learning the complicated path to 1 possible king symbolized by 1 rose, viewing the extraordinary 42 percent of...
Routledge, 1991. — 457 p. The structure of the regime: court, council and administration. The Spanish marriage. The restoration of the old religion. Financial policy, 1553–54. Philip as King of England, 1554–57. The government at work, 1554–57. Financial affairs, 1554–57. The religious reaction – Pole as legate. War and government, 1557–58. War and finance, 1557–58. The English...
Macmillan Education, 1997. — 192 p. Preamble: A Personal Monarchy The Nature of Authority Structures The Council The Royal Commissions The Parliament The Royal Court The Special Jurisdictions Regional and Provincial Identity
Palgrave, 1992. — 215 p. — (British History in Perspective). Historians, like politicians, thrive on crises. Was there really a crisis in England between 1545 and 1565, or is this just an historian's way of describing a period in history when a lot of interesting things were happening? In reality the twenty years from 1545 to 1565 contained no more elements of crisis than other...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, 1997. — 142 p. This study reassesses the policies of the founder of the Tudor dynasty and shows how Henry worked within existing traditions rather than breaking with the past. Every facet of the reign is considered including the nature of government - both at central and local level, financial policy, relations with the Church, foreign policy, economic...
Routledge, 2014. — 542 p. Recounts the life of the George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, describes his closely relationships with James I and Charles I, and examines his important role in English Stuart's royal politics. (Historian) Lockyer's work on the life of the 1st Duke of Buckingham, is comprehensive, researched in fascinating detail, and should be considered the...
Routledge, 2004. — 575 p. Providing detailed coverage of the main political and religious issues of the age, this new edition of Tudor and Stuart Britain has expanded sections on Ireland and Scotland, ensuring the text considers Britain as a whole. Historiographically up to date, there is also extra coverage of economic and social topics including trade and industry, the...
University of Toronto Press, 2008. — 448 p. Although the poet John Milton was a politically active citizen and polemicist during the English Revolution, little has been written on Milton's concept of nationalism. The first book to examine major aspects of Milton's nationalism in its full complexity and diversity, Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen...
Abrams, 2009. — 208 p. This is 1679, England: Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism have provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere, or so it is feared, Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the King. Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, finds himself charged with treason and facing a show trial and execution. Imprisoned...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have seen an opportunity for a return to Rome and an end to religious experimentation. However, Thomas Cromwell has other ideas. In August, the Lutheran...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 327 p. Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. Offering the first extensive history of reading during the Restoration, it traces developments in the book trade and news transmission...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 288 p. In the last thirty years scholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another facet of female alliance: the political. Archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law help shape this work as...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 304 p. The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern England. It was also profoundly important in shaping contemporary historical consciousness, the topographical imagination, and local tradition. Memory and the...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 615 p. Acclaimed for their dramatic rendering of the personalities and forces that shaped Elizabethan politics, Wallace T. MacCaffrey's three volumes thoroughly chronicle the Queen's decision making throughout her reign in a way that combines pleasurable reading with subtle analysis. Together in paperback for the first time, these books will...
6th Edition. — Routledge, 2015. — 216 p. Tudor Rebellions , now in its sixth edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. It also throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty’s attempt to bring the north and west under...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 288 p. William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State explores the complex relationship which existed between England and Ireland in the Tudor period, using the long association of William Cecil (1520-1598) with Ireland as a vehicle for historical enquiry. That Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor and the most important figure in England...
Monograph.Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 353 p.
The Restoration secretariat and intelligence,1660-1685.Intelligence and the Post Office.Local intelligence network in the north of England.'Taking the ruffian's wage':spies,an overview.The spies of the early Restoration regime,1660-1669.The spies of the later Restoration regime,1667-1685.The foreign and diplomatic...
Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000. — 256 p. On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce...
Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000. — 255 p. On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce...
2nd Revised edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 272 p. Reformation England 1480-1642 provides a clear and accessible narrative account of the English Reformation, explaining how historical interpretations of its major themes have changed and developed over the past few decades, where they currently stand, and where they seem likely to go. A great deal of interesting and...
The History Press, 2023. — 256 p. Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England’s most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn. From the fields of Norfolk to the royal court, via city commerce, local government, liberal education and numerous wedding bells, the Boleyns emerge as just one of many newly prosperous and ambitious families...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. — 384 p. In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2011. — 385 p. In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence,...
The History Press, 2013. — 320 p. A compelling and groundbreaking study of Henry VIII as a deeply flawed individual, this book vigorously challenges old assumptions and new interpretations alike. Tudor historian John Matusiak paints an absorbingly intimate portrait of a man wholly unfit for power: his personality, his beliefs, his relationships, his follies, his hollow...
The History Press, 2015. — 351 p. Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the longer term consequences of his reign has gone too far. For, in spite of genuine idealism and flashes of considerable resourcefulness, James I...
Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2016. — 1st. ed. — 351 pages : illus. (colour) This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar and alien to the modern reader. John Matusiak sets out to shed new light on the lives and times of...
University of Sheffield, 2014. — 488 p. This thesis explores the nature of clerical politics in Lancashire and Cheshire during the reign of King Charles I (1625-1649). Beginning with an overview first chapter of the religious situation in the county since the Elizabethan church settlement in 1559, the second chapter moves on to consider clerical reactions to the 'Laudian'...
Columbia University Press, 2002. — 245 p. Traditional notions of sacred kingship became both more grandiose and more problematic during England's turbulent sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation launched by Henry VIII and his claims for royal supremacy and divine right rule led to the suppression of the Mass, as the host and crucifix were overshadowed by royal...
Brill, 2021. — 360 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). This book highlights the 'Athenian tribe’, whose members, like John Cheke and William Cecil, were essential to the shaping of mid-Tudor political life, the English Church, and intellectual culture. They left a lasting imprint on early modern England.
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 208 p. Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships. Those responsible for delivering education came from a variety of backgrounds from the humble parish priest to the most famed poet-laureates of the day. Curriculums varied according to wealth, gender and geography. The wealthy...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 208 p. Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships. Those responsible for delivering education came from a variety of backgrounds from the humble parish priest to the most famed poet-laureates of the day. Curriculums varied according to wealth, gender and geography. The wealthy...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for executing legal process, holding local courts, empanelling juries, making arrests, executing criminals, collecting royal revenue, holding parliamentary elections, and many other vital duties....
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 232 p. The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they ‘did’ romance but how did they do sex? In this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 232 p. The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they ‘did’ romance but how did they do sex? In this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in...
The History Press, 2015. — 224 p. The first history of Henry VIII's beloved niece and one-time heir to the throne, whose life spanned the reign of four Tudor monarchs. This forgotten part of Tudor history is told here for the first time with all the passion and thrill of a novel, but this is no fiction—Henry VIII really did almost hand the throne to his beloved niece. Had he...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1918. — 490 p. James VI and I was one of the most influential British political writers of the early modern period. His Basilicon Doron was a best-seller in England and circulated widely on the Continent (the details are discussed in Wormald 1991, 51–2). It was translated into Latin, French, Dutch, German, Swedish and other languages (a list...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 284 p. The death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey has baffled scholars and armchair detectives for centuries; this book offers compelling new evidence and, at last, a solution to the mystery. On a cold October afternoon in 1678, the Westminster justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey left his home in Charing Cross and never returned. Within hours of his...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 272 p. In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 254 p. Introduction: The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England The Extraordinary in the Everyday Bodily Control and Social Unease: The Fart in Seventeenth-Century England The Ambition of a Young Baronet: Sir Thomas Isham of Lamport, 1657–1681 Robert Robertes and Little Cis: An Extraordinary Relationship Punishing Words: Insults and...
Hodder Education, 2014. — 144 p. Учебное пособие по восстаниям, мятежам, бунтам и заговорам в Англии против королевской власти (династии Тюдоров) в период с 1485 по 1603 годы. Исследуются причины и последствия этих мятежных событий.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. — 492 p. — (Past and Present Publications). — ISBN10: 0521368774; ISBN13: 978-0521368773. In a number of related case-studies, this book traces the social political, and cultural factors making for conformity and obedience, and those promoting dissidence and revolt in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. The essays...
Yale University Press, 2000. — 304 p. — (The Yale English Monarchs Series). James II (1633-1701) lacked the charisma of his father, Charles I, but shared his tendency to dismiss the views of others when they differed from his own. Failing to understand his subjects, James was also misunderstood by them. In this highly-regarded biography, John Miller reassesses James II and his...
Routledge, 2014. — 328 p. The first study of Restoration England from the point of view of both rulers and ruled, this volume offers a vital reappraisal of seventeenth century England. The civil wars had a traumatic effect on the English people: memories of bloodshed and destruction and the ultimate horror of the execution of Charles I continued to be invoked for decades...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 492 p. This introductory textbook provides a wide-ranging survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain, charting the gradual integration of the four kingdoms, from the Wars of the Roses to the formation of 'Britain', and the aftermath of England's unions with Wales and Scotland. The only textbook at...
Routledge, 1997. — 144 p. This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years, the book has now been heavily revised, and expanded, to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular, the Second Edition reflects new work done on political parties, the constitution, taxation, the...
Routledge, 1997. — 144 p. This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years, the book has now been heavily revised, and expanded, to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular, the Second Edition reflects new work done on political parties, the constitution, taxation, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 450 p. England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations. Rather than seeing the Civil War years as a destructive aberration, Anthony Milton demonstrates how they were integral to (and indeed the...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 176 p. In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was. From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore's new book is the first to chart the period's most gripping...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 357 p. In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the sky, exciting much comment and portending "horrible windes and tempests." And in the remote, squalid precinct of St. Giles-in-the-Fields outside the city wall, Goodwoman...
Brill, 2019. — xvii, 479 p.; 55 full-color ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 300/39; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 300/39). In Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores, Anne-Françoise Morel offers an account of the intellectual and cultural history of places of worship in Stuart England. Official documents issued by the Church of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 100 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
The Great Fire, the Black Death, flip-flopping religious persecution, the overthrow and reinstatement of the monarchy. The Stuart Britain era, a notch on the timeline spanning roughly 1603-1714, is one of the most interesting times in the history of Britain. John Morrill's Stuart Britain: A Very Short...
Routledge, 2005. — 176 p. — (Questions and Analysis in History). Tudor Government looks at English government across all the Tudor reigns, including those of Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth, and explores such important themes as: the role of parliament. law and order. the government of the church. the personal role of the monarch.
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 464 p. Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares. How would you find your way around? Where would you stay? What would you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be welcome? This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the...
William Heinemann Ltd, 2015. - 315 c. - ISBN10: 0434022896; ISBN13: 978-0434022892. On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey – an account that would transform him entirely. Sir...
William Heinemann Ltd, 2015. - 315 c. - ISBN10: 0434022896; ISBN13: 978-0434022892. On the 16th of August 1628, five battle-scarred English ships sailed into the harbour of the Greek island of Milos. Dropping anchor, the 25-year-old captain banqueted with the local lord before sitting down to write an account of his journey – an account that would transform him entirely. Sir...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 279 p. "Finn’s excellent study is one of the first of its kind to engage with early chronicle sources’ complex depictions of historical royal women. Her lucid explanation of the influence of generic traditions of romance narratives and de casibus tragedy on historiography is a crucial piece of the puzzle that is the historical and literary...
Peter Lang, 2018. — 296 p. This volume investigates the impact the first and third Earls of Shaftesbury had on Enlightenment thought. The focus is on both their tangible actions on the political stage of the day and on the more general intellectual repercussions of what these men stood for in word and deed. As a result, «Shaping Enlightenment Politics» offers important...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. — 355 p. This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth's reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest,...
Boydell Press, 2017. — 477 p. Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Reformation saw not only the survival of many medieval institutions but also a remarkable number of new foundations, as people from many different...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 336 p. A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly...
Harper, 2008. — 320 p. Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650— Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail,...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 208 p. Delve into the world of the unorthodox burial in seventeenth-century England, including mass interments in times of disease, the burial of suicides, and the unconventional laying to rest of English Catholics. Death was a constant presence in the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-century England, being much more visible in...
Amberley Publishing, 2024. — 288 p. Get to know this distinguished group on an intimate level by discovering what they ate and drank, how their houses were furnished, what possessions were most important to them, the pastimes they enjoyed, the people they loved, the friends they hated, the outlandish customs they tolerated, and the lives they led. Standing directly below the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 396 p. — (Queenship and Power). This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar - especially the six wives of Henry VIII - and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 396 p. — (Queenship and Power). This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar - especially the six wives of Henry VIII - and...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 356 p. Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent...
Amberley Publishing, 2011. — 288 p. The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant, of Henry VIII's wives. The real Jane was a very different character, demure and...
Collins, 1986. — 250 p. The Apology. An English Valido? Buckingham and James I. England and Italy: The Marriage of Henry Prince of Wales. Bishop Thornborough: A Clerical Careerist. Strafford and Van Dyck. A Wedding At St. Margaret's. The Word ‘Revolution’ in Seventeenth-Century England. Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding: A Reappraisal. Charles I and Little Gidding. The Debate...
Atheneum Books, 1979. — 211 p. Remarkably and immensely readable. A just yet compassionate study of two complex, muddled, fissured human beings caught in the most difficult of crafts--kingship. It should not be missed by anyone interested in the Stuarts or in the personalities of Charles I and Charles II: indeed, any reader will be greatly stimulated by it. Two kings, father...
Brill, 2016. — xiv, 316 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 17). This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 400 p. Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London, ca. 1600, Lena Cowen Orlin and a...
Brill, 2018. — 296 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). In Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics, and rulers, who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and...
Longman, 1992. — 543 p. This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and expanded, is clear in outline, rich in detail, stressing continuity as well as change, balancing the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 429 p. This is a historical study of the career of King James VI and I, as king of Scotland (1567-1625) and England (1603-1625), who achieved a union of the crowns as the first king of Great Britain, and who undertook to end the recurring religious wars. His peacemaking by diplomatic means was complemented by his efforts to foster closer...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 268 p. — (Ideas in Context 125). While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that it occupied in the development of political thinking has remained obscure. This comprehensive and rigorous study of early modern English political counsel...
Michael Joseph, 2022. — 528 p. Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of - the dashing and daring Dudleys. Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by their side - or by crushing one beneath their feet. The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 336 p. This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Employing a rich cache of archival material, Jason Peacey...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 374 p.
Arguments about the place and practice ofthe duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and shows how the moral and ideological status ofduelling was discussed within amuch larger cultural context ofcourtesy, civility and politeness. The...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 500 p. In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling,...
Routledge, 2015. — 208 p. Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that...
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 432 p. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 248 p. Marriage was, in the first half of the seventeenth century, an important metaphor for the special political and religious standing of England, defining the contract between king and kingdom and uniting conceptions of authority in household and polity. Within this theoretical perspective, the liberties of the king's subjects were also...
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 212 p. Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 192 p. This book explores the measures taken by the newly re-installed monarchy and its supporters to address the drastic events of the previous two decades. Profoundly preoccupied with - and, indeed, anxious about - the uses and representations of the nation’s recent troubled past, the returning royalist regime heavily relied upon the dissemination,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 462 p. — (Ideas in Context). — ISBN-10 0521201934; ISBN-13 978-0521201933. This collection of essays, all by preeminent exponents of the history of political thought, explores the political ideologies of early modern Britain. Organized on a broadly chronological basis, the topics addressed by individual scholars reflect in...
Routledge, 2018. — 245 p. This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard, medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources...
Orion Pub Co, 2003. — 376 p. Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework,...
The History Press, 2021. — 304 p. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 304 p. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk...
Pen and Sword History, 2018. — 192 p. Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Less well known is the fact that he was a serial sexual offender by modern standards; a voyeur, a groper and a rapist. Set against the London society of Charles II's restoration, and extensively...
The History Press, 1999. — 216 p. Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1558, on her Catholic sister Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Loved and respected by her subjects and idolized by future generations, Gloriana's fierce devotion to her country and its people made her England's...
The History Press, 2011. — 256 p. Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history. Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. She was born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her mother was condemned as a...
The History Press, 2013. — 256 p. The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history. United in blood but divided by religion, the two women were in some ways uniquely close; in others, poles apart. Championed by English Catholics as the rightful Queen of England, Mary was...
Hodder Education, 2016. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4718-6432-2. AQA approved Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success. - Motivate your students to deepen their...
Brill, 2017. — 301 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 20). John Wilkins (1614-72): New Essays presents ten fresh essays on the life and work of the influential English natural philosopher and theologian, John Wilkins. Wilkins, one of the most prominent figures in the scientific revolution in England, and a founder of the Royal Society of London,...
Picador, 2021. — 224 p. According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. Mistresses is the story of the women who shared Charles’s bed, each of whom wielded...
Amberley Publishing, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-848682-00-X. Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals and diaries, a vivid picture...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 335 p. The Tudor and Stuart inns of court were major centres of learning and literature, as well as professional associations of practising lawyers. This book sketches the evolution of the inns from their medieval origins and traces the dramatic impact of the societies' rapid expansion through the Elizabethan era and beyond. Prest's...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 268 p. A study of the political and religious ideas that contributed to the collapse of the authority of Charles I in 1642, this text aids the historical understanding of the causes and nature of the English Civil War and challenges two of the dominant interpretations of the conflict.
The History Press, 2013. — 296 p. Where might a knave find a loose lady in the time of Queen Elizabeth? What vegetable did Jacobean doctors prescribe for a scorpion bite? And what manner of man was described as "an intelligible ass, or a silly fellow in black, that speaks sentences more familiarly than sense"? (Answers below.) These amusing vignettes, collected by British...
London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 673 p. (588 p. in original edition) This is a study of the political, religious, social and mental worlds of the Catholic aristocracy from 1550 to 1640. Michael Questier examines the familial and patronage networks of the English Catholic community and their relationship to the later Tudors and Stuarts. He shows how the...
Routledge, 2017. — 578 p. Volume I: A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. First published: 1940. Volume II: Includes documents relating to the Munster plantation scheme, 1569, and the Knollys piracy, 1579. The main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition...
Routledge, 2017. — 604 p. The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) in 1556. To the accounts of these voyages by John...
Routledge, 1993. — 136 р. Draws on recent interpretations of the period to re-evaluate Charles I's reign. This work analyses the reign of Charles I against the background of his father's legacy and the problems he inherited. The study assesses Charles's own methods and style of government, suggesting that these were mainly to blame for the difficulties he encountered.
The Ohio State University, 2007. — 403 p. Tudor and early-Stuart writers refashioned the posthumous reputation of King Henry VIII during the reigns of Henry’s royal successors in response to ongoing debate over the interconnected themes of English religious and national identity. Henry’s legacy as a potential supporter of these notions was ambivalent owing to the shifting...
Routledge, 1998. — 235 p. — (Themes in British Social History). Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
Routledge, 2003. — 432 p. 'Yet hath it been ever esteemed a matter commendable to collect [works] together, and incorporate them into one body, that we may behold at once, what divers Off-springs have proceeded from one braine.' This observation from the Bishop of Winchester in his preface to King James's 1616 Workes is particularly appropriate, since James's writings cross the...
University of Leicester, 2015. — 341 p. This thesis presents Thomas Manton as a leading figure in the Presbyterian bid for the centre ground of English ecclesiastical culture in the Interregnum and Restoration. Not only was Manton active on multiple committees of national significance for religious settlement from the 1650s to 1670s, but he likely has the largest corpus of...
Made Global Publishing, 2012. — 650 p. On This Day in Tudor History gives a day-by-day look at events from the Tudor era, including births, deaths, baptisms, marriages, battles, arrests, executions and more. Written by best-selling Tudor history author Claire Ridgway, On This Day in Tudor History contains a wealth of information about your favourite Tudor monarchs, their...
Robinson Publishing, 2002. — 304 pages. — ISBN: 9781841194714
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry — London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, medicine,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 368 p. Sometime heir to the English throne, courtier in danger of losing her head, spy-mistress and would-be architect of a united Catholic Britain: Lady Margaret Douglas is the Tudor who survived and triumphed -but at a terrible cost. Niece to Henry VIII and half-sister to James V of Scotland, the beautiful and Catholic Margaret held a unique...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 331 p. The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the crown, parliament and common law during the...
Routledge, 2003. — 116 p. This briefly work, aimed at students unfamiliar with religious ideas and terminology, attempts to convey the centrality of religion to people's lives in early modern Tudor and Stuart England, and to understand why people were prepared to die and kill for their faith.
Palgrave Macmillan, 1955. — 450 p. Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of that age are legendary. The subject of this classic study by A.L. Rowse is that society's 'expansion'. Elizabethan society expanded both physically (first into Cornwall, then Ireland, then across the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 208 p. A chronological narrative of the early English Parliaments of James VI and I, covering in detail the four sessions of the 1604-1610 Parliament and the Addled Parliament of 1614, with a final chapter looking towards the parliaments of the 1620s.
Routledge, 2017. — 328 p. The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes. In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of the religious and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 336 p. The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course of this period, culminating in a reinterpretation of John Locke's celebrated...
Routledge, 2017. — 177 p. The English Renaissance is frequently defined in the context of the Elizabethans and early-Stuarts, but here we focus on the early Renaissance, and the important cultural transitions of the late-medieval/early-Tudor period. In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the lives and experiences of six men and women of the early Renaissance...
Hodder Education, 2015. — 272 p. This book on the history of Britain from 1603 to 1702 is written to support AQA’s A-level History Breadth Study specification on seventeenth-century Stuart Britain. The seventeenth century is sometimes called England’s ‘century of troubles’, a turbulent century of civil war and political revolution. For some historians this was the most...
Routledge, 2017. — 405 p. The degree to which the English Protestant Reformation was a reflection of genuine popular piety as opposed to a political necessity imposed by the country's rulers has been a source of lively historical debate in recent years. Whilst numerous arguments and documentary sources have been marshalled to explain how this most fundamental restructuring of...
The History Press, 2011. — 228 p. The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience the will of the...
The History Press, 2008. — 336 p. This is a major biography of Henry's VIII's right hand man, revealing for the first time that the image of a blood stained henchman is largely fictional. Thomas Cromwell was the Henry's VIII's chief minister and principal reformer of the church in one of the most eventful eras in English history. Contemporary sources reveal a brilliant mind and...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 350 р. A detailed examination of the March system - the special administrative arrangements which applied on both sides of the border - how it was applied and how it evolved as national political circumstances changed. The Anglo-Scottish borderlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide an excellent window into early modern state formation,...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2000, -560p.
In this path-breaking study, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive: that experience ofpolitical instability which contemporaries called ‘our troubles’. The second was creative: its spectacular intellectual consequence in the English revolution....
Routledge, 2019. — 268 p. Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I’s reign alarms occurred. One grew out of the king’s plan, opposed by Spain, to marry his daughter Elizabeth to the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 214 p. Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion. Often described reductively in voyaging accounts as having one function, in fact...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 362 p. This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses...
Hart Publishing, 2020. — 280 p. This book provides an illuminating commentary of law reform in the early modern era (1500–1740) and views the moves to improve law and legal institutions in the context of changing political and governmental environments. Taking a fresh look at law reform over several centuries, it explores the efforts of the king and parliament, and the body of...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 347 p. The Description for this book, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England: A Study of the Relationships Between National Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature, will be forthcoming for early modern Britain.
Yale University Press, 2010. — 684 p. Image Wars is a massive piece of research, surveying a very impressive array of texts and visual representations on a scale that no previous study approaches. Sharpe's book will challenge historians, art historians and literary scholars to broaden their views on the genres through which monarchs represented themselves to their people.
Routledge, 1989. — 128 p. The changes brought about during the English Reformation clearly reflected the desire of the Crown, government and landed classes to reduce the political power and landed wealth of the late medieval Church. This book covers the background to the Reformation, the processes which brought about these major changes and the impact on the clergy and the...
Atlantic Books, 2024. — 352 p. Despite Catherine of Braganza's crucial place in British history, and that of its Empire, she has since been overshadowed by stories of the king's many mistresses and forgotten as Charles' boring, powerless wife. This could not be further from the truth. In an absorbing narrative, historian Sophie Shorland not only tells the full story of this...
Atlantic Books, 2024. — 352 p. Despite Catherine of Braganza's crucial place in British history, and that of its Empire, she has since been overshadowed by stories of the king's many mistresses and forgotten as Charles' boring, powerless wife. This could not be further from the truth. In an absorbing narrative, historian Sophie Shorland not only tells the full story of this...
The History Press, 2010. — 192 p. The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question providing a unique and accessible introduction to the everyday life and responsibilities of women from all...
American Philosophical Society, 1984. — 81 p. Some time during the Interregnum, William Cavendish, Earl, later Duke of Newcastle, wrote a long letter of advice to his ex-tutee Charles II. It is an important source of evidence for political attitudes and perceptions in Stuart court circles, and an unduly neglected one. Nevertheless, having survived in two manuscripts, it n o w...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 376 p. A new history of English trade and empire - revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain. In the century following Elizabeth I’s rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants", England...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 376 p. A new history of English trade and empire - revealing how a tightly woven community of merchants was the true origin of globalized Britain. In the century following Elizabeth I’s rise to the throne, English trade blossomed as thousands of merchants launched ventures across the globe. Through the efforts of these "mere merchants", England...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 297 p. Transnational Catholicism in Tudor England details the relationship between transnational mobility and the development of Tudor Catholicism. Almost two hundred Catholics felt compelled to exile themselves from England rather than conform with the religious reformations inaugurated by Henry VIII and Edward VI. Frederick E. Smith explores...
Random House, 2011. — 342 p. Tudor England abounded with traitors great and small, whose ill-timed, self-defeating and irrational antics guaranteed their failure. Yet from the inept and calamitous intrigues of 'Sweet-Lips' Gregory Botolf in 1540 and Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour during the reign of Edward VI, to the bungling efforts at a palace coup by Robert Devereux, second...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 704 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 704 p. The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a...
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The relationship between church and state, indeed between religion and politics, has been one of the most significant themes in early modern English history. While scores of specialized studies have greatly advanced scholars' understanding of particular aspects of this period, there is no general overview that...
Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. - 319 p. This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 250 p. This indispensable introductory guide offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question relating to the period 1660-1714, and uses artistic and literary sources – as well as more traditional texts of political history – to illustrate and illuminate arguments. George...
Routledge, 2016. — 192 p. — (Profiles in Power). Forced out of power in the"Glorious Revolution" of 1688, and defeated in the subsequent battle of the Boyne by William of Orange, the short reign of James II has an importance that reaches far beyond his three years in power. An ardent Roman Catholic, his efforts to return England to the Catholic faith resonate to this day in...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 278 p. In 1688 the Catholic James II was removed from the throne and replaced by the Protestant monarchs William III and Mary. The importance of this glorious revolution, long seen as a crucial shift in Britain from absolutism to constitutional monarchy, has recently been questioned by historians. This wide-ranging book takes a fresh look at the...
Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka, 2023. — 169 p. This thesis explores the early political career of the Scottish borderer Robert Carr [Kerr], earl of Somerset (1585/6–1645), a courtier and later administrator (1598-1615) in the reigns of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland. For the first time the pervasive contention Carr was a significant...
Routledge, 2014. — 408 p. The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and the search for an acceptable religious settlement, which...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 288 p. Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity - commercial rather...
Harper Perennial, 2009. — 400 p. The first instalment of the highly anticipated biography of Henry VIII, written by one of the UK's most popular, established and exciting historians. 'Henry: Virtuous Prince' is a radical re-evaluation of the monarchy's most enduring icon. Henry VIII was Britain's most powerful monarch, yet he was not born to rule. Thrust into the limelight...
Pen & Sword History, 2017. — 352 p. In the early hours of 10 February 1567 a large explosion ripped through the Provosts lodgings at Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh, where Mary Queen of Scotland's consort, Henry Lord Darnley, was staying. Darnley's body was found with that of his valet in a neighboring garden the next morning. The Queen's husband had been murdered and the...
Routledge, 2012. — 254 p. In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the Crown's income from customs duties (on which it relied...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0199988536; ISBN13: 978-0199988532 Rethinking Mercantilism brings together a group of young early modern British and European historians to investigate what use the concept "mercantilism" might still hold for both scholars and teachers of the period. While scholars often find the term unsatisfactory, mercantilism has...
University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. — 488 p. The Reformation complicated the issue of religious identity, especially among Christians for whom confessional violence at home and religious wars on the continent had made the darkness of confessionalization visible. Robert E. Stillman explores the identity of “Christians without names,” as well as their agency as cultural actors...
Routledge, 2017. — 225 p. Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesizing the historical, political and...
Harper & Row, 1977. — xxxi, 800 p. This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.
Yale University Press, 2022. — 384 p. The fascinating story of the so-called “Prayer Book Rebellion” of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up against the Crown. The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black Death and the Civil War. Beginning as an argument between two men and their vicar, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 389 p. The Physiology of the Soul The Soul in Three Dimensions: Pietro Pomponazzi and Andreas Vesalius Aspiring Souls (I): Tamburlaine the Great Aspiring Souls (II): Doctor Faustus Painful Inquisition: Body–Soul Problems in Early Modern Christianity The Differential Soul: Women, Fools and Personal Identity The Dying Soul (I): Christian Mortalism as...
Routledge, 2017. — 344 p. Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of political equality. Subordinate Subjects traces to the end...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 352 p. A kinswoman to Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys had begun the Queen’s glittering reign basking in favor and success. It was an honor that she would enjoy for two decades. However, on the morning of September 21st, 1578, Lettice made a fateful decision. When the Queen learned of it, the consequences were swift. Lettice had dared to marry without the...
Algora Publishing, 2006. — 244 p. One life may reflect all the tempestuous turbulence of an era. Edward Courtenay spent his life in the best prisons and palaces. Mary Tudor finally released him from the Tower when she seized the throne from Jane Grey after only a nine-day reign. Sometimes referred to as the White Rose because he was the last descendant of the Plantagenets (through...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 256 p. This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life. The most famous and influential of the victims were the two people closest to Henry VIII. His mentor, Cardinal Thomas...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 256 p. This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation - a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life. The most famous and influential of the victims were the two people closest to Henry VIII. His mentor, Cardinal Thomas...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1923. — 209 p. Nearly nine years ago the Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford suggested to me that I should attempt some investigation into county government in the sixteenth century. The work was scarcely begun when the exigencies of the war caused it to be laid on one side. I had, however, already come to the...
Transworld Digital, 2017. — 496 p. What was it like to live as a royal Tudor? Why were their residences built as they were and what went on inside their walls? Who slept where and with who? Who chose the furnishings? And what were their passions? The Tudors ruled through the day, throughout the night, in the bath, in bed and in the saddle. Their palaces were genuine power...
Jonathan Cape, 2001. — 480 p. In His Invention So Fertile, Adrian Tinniswood offers the first biography of Christopher Wren in a generation. It is a book that reveals the full depth of Wren's multifaceted genius, not only as one of the greatest architects who ever lived--the designer of St. Paul's Cathedral--but as an influential seventeenth-century scientist. Tinniswood writes...
Basic Books, 2013. — 409 p. The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history, witnessing the birth of New England and, in the mother country, a chaotic civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. At the center of this turbulent time was an outsized family: the Rainborowes. Shipmasters and soldiers,...
Penguin Group, 2007. — 570 p. Here is Edmund Verney, Charles I's standard bearer at Edgehill, who died still clutching the King's standard, and his children: Ralph, whose support of the Parliamentarian cause during the Civil War forced him into exile; Mun, a professional soldier who survived Cromwell's attack on Drogheda in 1649, only to be stabbed to death two days later; Mall,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. — 598 pages. — ISBN: 9780631236184
A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent...
Macmillan Education, 1983. — 226 p. The Causes of War: A Historiographical Survey. The Jacobean Religious Settlement: The Hampton Court Conference. The Personal Rule of Charles I. Spain or the Netherlands? The Dilemmas of Early Stuart Foreign Policy. Financial and Administrative Developments. The Nature of a Parliament in Early Stuart England. National and Local Awareness in...
Brill, 2023. — xviii, 286 p. — (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History). Were mid-Tudor evangelicals roaring lions or meek lambs? Did they struggle with a minority complex, or were they comfortable with their position of political ascendancy under Edward VI? How did their theological blueprint of the ‘True Church’ fit their temporal realities? By relocating the Book of...
Routledge, 2002. — 567 p. An undisputed classic, England Under the Stuarts is an account of England in the years between 1603 and 1714, charting England's progress from a 'great nation' to a 'great empire'. G. M. Trevelyan's masterful narrative explores the major events of this period, which witnessed the upheavals of Civil War, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution....
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 488 p. The most powerful man in England during the so-called "Eleven Years Tyranny" from 1629-1640, archbishop of Canterbury William Laud (1573-1645) was thrown from power in 1640 and executed on Tower Hill during the Civil War. He remains a controversial figure in English history, either denounced as a tyrant and bigot or extolled as a statesman and...
University of Delaware Press, 2007. — 232 р. Sociable Criticism in England explores how from 1625 to 1725 cultural practices and discourses of sociability (rules for small-group discussion, friendship discourse, and patron-client relationships) determined the venues within which critical judgments were rendered, disseminated, and received. It establishes how individuals...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 338 p. The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political...
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 338 p. The Corporate Commonwealth traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fiction, politics, and value. Henry S. Turner uses the resources of economic and political...
Oxford Paperbacks, 1987. — 352 p. What do maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches have to do with the English civil war? A great deal, argues Underdown in this provocative reinterpretation of the English Revolution. Underdown uses case histories of three western counties to show that the war was, above all, the result of profound disagreements among people of all...
Hachette Digital, 2013. — 656 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-52776-7. Heeding the call of England’s ruling class, the Dutch Prince William of Orange landed with a massive invasion force and within six weeks expelled the Catholic King James II in 1688. In what was largely heralded as a bloodless revolution, William and his English wife Mary, James II’s Protestant daughter, were crowned...
Pegasus Books, 2008. — 400 p. Heeding the call of England’s ruling class, the Dutch Prince William of Orange landed with a massive invasion force and within six weeks expelled the Catholic King James II in 1688. In what was largely heralded as a bloodless revolution, William and his English wife Mary, James II’s Protestant daughter, were crowned joint monarchs, accepting the...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 224 p. In February 1685, James II succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne. His popularity had soared and fallen during his brother’s reign. During a period of less than forty years that had seen the execution of their father, Charles I, the proclamation of a republic, and restoration of the monarchy a few years later, nothing could...
Peter Lang, 2021. — 298 p. On the death of Elizabeth I, Anna of Denmark, wife to James VI and I, became the first queen consort of both England and Scotland. She offered her subjects north and south of the border an ideal of consortship: an attractive, fecund woman with a flair for display. Yet, history has been far from kind to the first British consort. Anna has been...
Birlinn, 2023. — 432 p. In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual king, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly...
Birlinn, 2023. — 432 p. In this new biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual king, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 239 p. Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a different turn. Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points...
Pen & Sword Military, 2023. — 304 p. A revisionist history showing a gradual build-up of opposition and a drift to conflict which few expected or wanted. And this was despite growing Stuart absolutism, threats to Parliament and the accepted civil order and religious controversy. It is forensic study, full of fascinating and even unexpected details, principal actors come to life...
Pen & Sword Military, 2023. — 304 p. A revisionist history showing a gradual build-up of opposition and a drift to conflict which few expected or wanted. And this was despite growing Stuart absolutism, threats to Parliament and the accepted civil order and religious controversy. It is forensic study, full of fascinating and even unexpected details, principal actors come to life...
Pen & Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 332 p. This is the first extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker’s innovative...
Routledge, 2014. — 509 p. The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it...
Boydell Press, 2000. — 232 р. Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life. Until now, scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in the conflicts of the 1640s, with discussion of the Covenants after 1660 mostly limited...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 455 p. Alexander Neville (1544-1614) was an English humanist, author, poet and translator. His skill as a Latinist brought him to the attention of Matthew Parker, Elizabeth I's first Archbishop of Canterbury, who appointed him one of his secretaries. This book presents Neville's Latin texts of De furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce and Norwicus (1575)...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 305 p. This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 291 p. This study of early modern queenship compares the reign of Henry VII’s queen, Elizabeth of York, and those of her daughters-in-law, the six queens of Henry VIII. It defines the traditional expectations for effective Tudor queens—particularly the queen’s critical function of producing an heir—and evaluates them within that framework, before moving...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 282 p. This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 282 p. This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 192 p. Nell Gwyn, the most infamous mistress of Charles II, was a commoner raised from the dingy back alleys of London to the stage and into a king’s arms. Hers was a true rags to riches story that saw a young girl rise from selling oranges to capturing the heart of a king. The Restoration period was one of change. After the troubled years of the...
John Hunt Publishing, 2019. — 208 p. Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the background of the English Civil War. Mary would marry William, Prince of Orange, and be sent to live in the Netherlands. Elizabeth would remain in England under Parliamentary control. Henrietta Anne would escape...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 216 p. Inside the Tudor Home sheds light on how people lived in the sixteenth century from plush royal palaces to wattle-and-daub cottages and everything in between. Power. Politics. Prosperity. Plague. Tudor England; a country replete with sprawling landscapes, dense forests and twisting urban labyrinths. This is a place of stagnation and of...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. — 425 p. In Lord Churchill's Coup, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrated that the Anglo-American empire was classic in its from, administrated by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated by a crusading religion, Webb now argues...
University Press of Kentucky, 1995. — 304 p. The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this...
Cambridge University Press, 1960. — 225 p. The seventeenth century is one of the great ages of English history, a century of frequent tempests and deceptive calms, of tumultuous intellectual activity, of moral and physical conflict, of national expansion and social change. It is one of the great ages of politics, in thought, and in action, fruitful in ideas and experiments. It...
Brill, 2017. — 865 p. — (Jesuit Studies 8). In 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich’s translation is the first English edition of the History, one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich’s introduction explores the text’s many...
Random House Publishing Group, 2007. — 656 p. This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power, celebrated for his intellect, presided over the most stylish and dangerous court in Renaissance Europe. Scheming cardinals vied for power with newly rich landowners and merchants, brilliant painters and architects...
Ballantine Books, 2010. — 432 p. The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of historians, novelists, dramatists, poets, artists and film-makers ever since. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536,...
Enthralling History. — 2022. — 240 p. Enthralling History Book. We believe that learning history should be an enthralling experience. Scandals, secrets, betrayals, politics, ambitions, romances, fatal attraction, pirates, armadas, and disaster — how much do you really know about the House of Tudor? In recent years, the Tudors have been the subject of books, movies, and...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 361 p. Modern credit, developed during the financial revolution of 1620–1720, laid the foundation for England’s political, military, and economic dominance in the eighteenth century. Possessed of a generally circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that...
University of North Carolina Press, 1979. — 345 p. Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. As Chief Justice, Coke restricted the use of the ex officio (Star Chamber) oath and, in the Case of Proclamations and Dr. Bonham's Case, declared the King to be subject to...
Boydell & Brewer, 2013. — 256 p. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more...
Atria Books, 2023. — 272 p. Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on the rise. Her grandfather had amassed a sizeable estate of fertile grazing land and made a small fortune in sheep farming, allowing him to purchase a simple but distinguished manor house called Althorp. With her sizable dowry, Alice married the heir to one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the...
The History Press, 2015. — 34 p. Looking behind the pomp and puritanism to explore the secret and scandalous world of the Tudors. Entertaining and engrossing, this book explores the lives of the Tudor dynasty alongside those of the masses. Highly illustrated, it also includes places associated with the stories. Chapters include Sex and Suspicion, Shadow of the Scaffold,...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 656 p. The Later Tudors , the second volume to be published in Oxford's authoritative series The New Oxford History of England , tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 192 p. — (Histories of the Unexpected). — ISBN: 978-1-786497-69-7. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Tudors have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its...
Springer Netherlands, 1978. — 179 p. Historical explanations need to keep step with the march of research if they are not to degenerate into empty cliches. It has long been a commonplace of 17th century history that the Anglo-Dutch Wars were the product of 'commercial rivalry'. This essay, first published twenty years ago, attempted to analyse and redefine this overworked...
Constable and Robinson, 2013. — 400 p. Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the...
Running Press, 2012. — 288 p. By 1600, England became a radically different nation in which family, work, religion, and politics were radically altered. In this Brief History, Tudor historian and expert Derek Wilson describes the dramatic changes that occurred to England, how the nation became Protestant, and why it still matters today.
Random House, 2014. — 416 p. The image of Charles II as a randy monarch who dragged the crown through the moral mire and irredeemably weakened its position has persisted throughout the three centuries since John Evelyn gave his judgement. That judgement, Derek Wilson argues, is okay as far as it goes. The Restoration court did set an example of cynical libertinism that provoked...
Pen & Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. The term ‘feminist’ would have been anachronistic in the Tudor period, but surely we would not hesitate to call the lady, who would be queen, Anne Boleyn, a feminist? All ten women examined in this book, from Catherine Parr to Margaret Beaufort, lived their lives in a way that challenged the patriarchal world they lived in. Each chapter is...
Pen & Sword History, 2024. — 224 p. The term ‘feminist’ would have been anachronistic in the Tudor period, but surely we would not hesitate to call the lady, who would be queen, Anne Boleyn, a feminist? All ten women examined in this book, from Catherine Parr to Margaret Beaufort, lived their lives in a way that challenged the patriarchal world they lived in. Each chapter is...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 306 p. Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations,...
Macmillan Education, 2002. — 242 p. Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England reassesses the relationship between politics, social change and popular culture in the period c. 1520-1730. It argues that early modern politics needs to be understood in broad terms, to include not only states and elites, but also disputes over the control of resources and the...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 379 p. Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over fifty different works in a variety of forms and genres. Churchyard's...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 288 р. Tudor England in its own time was nothing like it looks on a screen. The truth is at once more complicated, more intractable and much more interesting. There were many different political, social and religious changes taking place in the years between 1485 and 1603. At the same time, international alliances were shifting; wars were fought...
Arcturus Digital, 2016. — 228 p. Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British history. Beginning with the accession to the English throne of Henry VII, the author guides the reader through a succession of monarchs, who also included the infamous King Henry VIII, Mary I, Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Identifying the key moments of...
Cambridge University Press, 1974 (Transferred to digital printing 2003). — 427 p. In writing this book I have tried to picture a reader who has an outline knowledge of seventeenth-century English history, and who wishes to learn more about a particular part of it. But I have also had a more specialised audience in mind, and most of the book is based on specialised research....
Birlinn, 2021. — 807 p. The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 361 p. — (The Northern World 47). This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. Divided into four sections - 'Immigrants and Civilian Life', 'Diplomats and Travellers', 'Protestants and Patrons' and 'Catholics at Home and Abroad' - it offers a new...
Routledge, 2013. — 327 p. From James I to Queen Anne, this Companion includes detailed information on political, religious and cultural developments as well as military activity, foreign affairs and colonial expansion. Chronologies, biographies, documents, maps and genealogies, and an extensive bibliography navigate the reader through this fascinating and formative epoch as the...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 390 p.
The small but influential community of Italians that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisted of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers, and artists. However, in the wake of the English Reformation, Italian Protestants joined other continental religious refugees in finding Tudor England to be a...
Viking, 1988. — 272 p. This book covers the Glorious / Bloodless Revolution in which James II of England was deposed in favor of his son-in-law and daughter, William III and Mary II. Although the dynastic politics are covered, the author does not attribute the entire revolution to such a simplistic, one-dimensional cause. He explores the religious motivations, which in turn...
Amberley Publishing, 2015. — 152 p. The Stuart era encompasses the whole of the seventeenth century and beyond, with seven monarchs and a civil war that changed Britain forever. It was one of the most turbulent periods in our history, remembered for fire, plague and high treason alongside baroque music and Pepys's famous diary - but what are the stories behind the facts? Andrea...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1960. — 373 с. Исследование С. И. Архангельского является ценным вкладом в советскую историографию, опубликованные части его получили высокую оценку в советской и зарубежной печати. С. И. Архангельский пришел к весьма важным выводам по ряду вопросов, остававшихся ранее почти неизученными как в английской, так и в русской, советской...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1960. — 373 с. Исследование С. И. Архангельского является ценным вкладом в советскую историографию, опубликованные части его получили высокую оценку в советской и зарубежной печати. С. И. Архангельский пришел к весьма важным выводам по ряду вопросов, остававшихся ранее почти неизученными как в английской, так и в русской, советской...
Текст воспроизведен по изданию: Бредская декларация // Конституции и законодательные акты буржуазных государств XVII-XIX. М. Государственное издательство юридической литературы. 1957.
Бредская декларация (от 4 апреля 1660 года) — заявление английского короля Карла II, в котором он обещал амнистию за преступления совершенные во время Английской революции и в междуцарствие для...
М. , 2001. - 20 с.
Спецкурс «Английский средневековый манор: традиции и перспективы изучения» представляет собой ряд материалов, полученных на основании исследований, проведенных его автором в области аграрной истории Англии преимущественно периода позднего Средневековья.
Содержание: Несколько слов об аграрной истории. Решенные и нерешенные проблемы английского манора XVI-XVII...
Ин-т всеобщей истории. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 493 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009813-2 Внимание : здесь представлена авторская редакция этой книги (текст был выложен автором на сайте медиевистов ИВИ РАН), пагинация в данном файле не соответствует пагинации печатного издания (в файле 648 страниц). Применяя, наряду с классическим сравнительно-статистическим подходом, микроанализ,...
Ин-т всеобщей истории. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 493 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009813-2 Применяя, наряду с классическим сравнительно-статистическим подходом, микроанализ, герменевтическую реконструкцию текстов, семантический анализ источников, автор строит монографию как социальное исследование аграрного строя в Англии в канун революции середины XVII в., позволяющее проникнуть в глубины...
Ин-т всеобщей истории. — М.: Наука, 2004. — 493 с. — ISBN: 5-02-009813-2. Применяя, наряду с классическим сравнительно-статистическим подходом, микроанализ, герменевтическую реконструкцию текстов, семантический анализ источников, автор строит монографию как социальное исследование аграрного строя в Англии в канун революции середины XVII в., позволяющее проникнуть в глубины...
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2015. — 480 с. — ISBN 978-5-86007-900-7 Издание представляет собой первый русский перевод «Истории Великого мятежа» Эдуарда Гайда, лорда Кларендона (книги VI—XI), охватывающий период от начала Первой гражданской войны (1642) до окончания Второй гражданской войны и последовавшей за ней казнью Карла I Стюарта в январе 1649 года. Издание снабжено...
СПб.: Дмитрий Буланин, 2015. — 480 с. — ISBN 978-5-86007-900-7 Издание представляет собой первый русский перевод «Истории Великого мятежа» Эдуарда Гайда, лорда Кларендона (книги VI—XI), охватывающий период от начала Первой гражданской войны (1642) до окончания Второй гражданской войны и последовавшей за ней казнью Карла I Стюарта в январе 1649 года. Издание снабжено...
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1997. - 320 с.
Корни династии Тюдоров, невероятный ее взлет, падение и новый взлет до сих пор мало изучены. В настоящей книге приведены данные о династии Тюдоров, ее основателе; рассказывается о Северном Уэльсе тринадцатого столетия, Англии, Франции, Бретани четырнадцатого и пятнадцатого веков.
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1997. - 320 с.- (Серия: Исторические силуэты)
Корни династии Тюдоров, невероятный ее взлет, падение и новый взлет до сих пор мало изучены. В настоящей книге приведены данные о династии Тюдоров, ее основателе; рассказывается о Северном Уэльсе тринадцатого столетия, Англии, Франции, Бретани четырнадцатого и пятнадцатого веков.
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1997. — 320 с. — (Исторические силуэты).
Корни династии Тюдоров, невероятный ее взлет, падение и новый взлет до сих пор мало изучены. В настоящей книге приведены данные о династии Тюдоров, ее основателе; рассказывается о Северном Уэльсе тринадцатого столетия, Англии, Франции, Бретани четырнадцатого и пятнадцатого веков.
Учебник. — Ростов-на-Дону; Таганрог: Южный федеральный университет, 2021. — 390 с. Данное издание является второй частью учебника по истории Англии с древнейших времен по 2019 год. В настоящем учебнике речь идет об истории Англии в XVII веке, в рамках которого рассматриваются основные проблемы экономического, социального, политического и культурного развития страны в этот...
Монография. — СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2016. — 748 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN 978-5-98712-643-1. В монографии представлено современное понимание истории Реформации и религиозно-политической борьбы в Англии XVI - первые десятилетия XVII века. Данный период в британской истории был временем разрыва церковно-административных связей с римско-католической церковью,...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2009. — 328 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-274-4. Предлагаемая монография - первое отечественное исследование, посвященное одной из наиболее актуальных в современной исторической науке тем - "охоте на ведьм" и "ведьмомании" в Западной Европе, выполненное на английском материале. Книга представляет собой оригинальный взгляд на такое яркое и дискуссионное в истории...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2009. — 328 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91419-274-4. Предлагаемая монография - первое отечественное исследование, посвященное одной из наиболее актуальных в современной исторической науке тем - "охоте на ведьм" и "ведьмомании" в Западной Европе, выполненное на английском материале. Книга представляет собой оригинальный взгляд на такое яркое и дискуссионное в истории...
Монография. — Тюмень: Тюменский государственный университет (ТюмГУ), 2018. — 196 с. — ISBN: 978-5-400-01409-3. В монографии реконструируются представления англичан эпохи первых Стюартов на королевскую власть и свободу подданных. Для рассмотрения двух базовых установок предреволюционного сознания автор применяет метод case-studies, позволяющий выделить не только типичное, но и...
Учеб. пособие. — М.: Высшая. школа, 1973. — 342 с. В сборнике освещаются важнейшие этапы и основные проблемы английской буржуазной революции XVII в.: социально-экономические и идеологические предпосылки революции, кризис английского абсолютизма Стюартов, начало революции, Английская республика и др. Скан balik2. Предназначается для студентов исторических факультетов вузов....
Учеб. пособие. — М.: Высшая. школа, 1973. — 342 с. В сборнике освещаются важнейшие этапы и основные проблемы английской буржуазной революции XVII в.: социально-экономические и идеологические предпосылки революции, кризис английского абсолютизма Стюартов, начало революции, Английская республика и др. Скан balik2. Предназначается для студентов исторических факультетов вузов....
Москва: Типо-литография Т-ва И. Н. Кушнерев и К, 1903. — 485 с. «Английская деревня в эпоху Тюдоров» — магистерская диссертация историка Александра Николаевича Савина (1873-1923), материал для которой собран в 1900-1903 годах в ходе научной командировки в Англию. Работа посвящена изучению аграрной истории Англии, а именно исследованию особенностей английской деревни XVI века —...
М.: Издательство Московского государственного университета, 1984. — 200 с. Сборник посвящен мало исследованным в советской медиевистике вопросам социальной, экономической и внешнеполитической истории Англии XVI—XVII в., событиям реформации и контрреформации; рассматривается также развитие в Англии экономической, этической и религиозной мысли. Для специалистов-историков,...
М.: Издательство Московского государственного университета, 1984. — 200 с. Сборник посвящен мало исследованным в советской медиевистике вопросам социальной, экономической и внешнеполитической истории Англии XVI—XVII в., событиям реформации и контрреформации; рассматривается также развитие в Англии экономической, этической и религиозной мысли. Для специалистов-историков,...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1963. — 76 с. Предлагаемые лекции предназначены для студентов-заочников исторических факультетов государственных университетов и посвящены одному из разделов курса истории средних веков, который изучается на втором году обучения. Лекции должны помочь студентам глубоко изучить этот важный раздел курса истории средневековья как при подготовке к экзамену, так...
М.; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1949. — 373 с. Задачей настоящей работы является выяснение истории огораживаний в Англии конца XV и XVI вв. Ранние огораживания XV‒XVI вв. особенно интересны для исследователя, так как они представляли начало глубочайшего переворота, завершившегося спустя два с половиной столетия полным исчезновением крестьянства в Англии как...
М.; Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1949. — 373 с. Задачей настоящей работы является выяснение истории огораживаний в Англии конца XV и XVI вв. Ранние огораживания XV‒XVI вв. особенно интересны для исследователя, так как они представляли начало глубочайшего переворота, завершившегося спустя два с половиной столетия полным исчезновением крестьянства в Англии как...
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2006. — 296 с. — (BibliothecaPax Britanпica). — ISBN 5-89329-870-5. Монография посвящена политическим взглядам английских католиков XVI – начала XVII вв. В книге исследуются представления английских католиков о взаимоотношениях духовной и светской властей, о границах подчинения им со стороны верующих/подданных, о проблеме веротерпимости. Их взгляды...
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2006. — 296 с. — (BibliothecaPax Britanпica). — ISBN 5-89329-870-5. Монография посвящена политическим взглядам английских католиков XVI – начала XVII вв. В книге исследуются представления английских католиков о взаимоотношениях духовной и светской властей, о границах подчинения им со стороны верующих/подданных, о проблеме веротерпимости. Их взгляды...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2012. - 448 с.
Этот род царствовал всего 117 лет (1485–1603), но вклад Тюдоров в мировую историю невозможно переоценить. Эта династия превратила Англию во «Владычицу морей» и лидера Европы. Эти монархи провели свою державу через самые опасные рифы и мели, превратив ее в «непотопляемый» флагман европейской цивилизации, оставив после себя первый в мире Парламент,...
М.: Яуза, Эксмо, 2012. - 448 с.
Этот род царствовал всего 117 лет (1485–1603), но вклад Тюдоров в мировую историю невозможно переоценить. Эта династия превратила Англию во «Владычицу морей» и лидера Европы. Эти монархи провели свою державу через самые опасные рифы и мели, превратив ее в «непотопляемый» флагман европейской цивилизации, оставив после себя первый в мире Парламент,...
СПб.: ИД Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2011. — 386 с. — (Труды исторического факультета СПбГУ. Том 7). Коллективная монография рассматривает английский королевский двор конца эпохи Средневековья и раннего Нового времени в его институциональном, политическом, инструментальном и церемониальном проявлении. Несмотря на кажущуюся разноплановость этих феноменов придворного...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 271 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907030-68-8. Книга посвящена придворным исследованиям, а конкретно – церемониальному пространству английского королевского двора времен Якова I в контексте династического строительства первых Стюартов. «Феномен королевского двора – не уникальное, но исключительное по яркости и смысловой содержательности и репрезентативности явление,...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 271 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907030-68-8. Книга посвящена придворным исследованиям, а конкретно – церемониальному пространству английского королевского двора времен Якова I в контексте династического строительства первых Стюартов. «Феномен королевского двора – не уникальное, но исключительное по яркости и смысловой содержательности и репрезентативности явление,...
М.: Издательство Христианского библейского братства св. апостола Павла, 2009. — 456 с.
Джон Фокс родился в Бостоне, в графстве Линкольншир, в Англии в 1516 году, умер 18 апреля 1587 г. Книга, принесшая ему известность, была впервые опубликована в Англии в 1563 г. под названием "События и памятники наших последних и опасных дней". Но более известна она как "Книга мучеников". В...
Смоленск: Русич, 2006. — 416 с., ил. - (Популярная историческая библиотека. ) Пер. с англ. О. Ю. Ивановой, С. Н. Самуйлова. Впервые выходящая на русском языке книга выдающегося английского государственного деятеля У. С. Черчилля (1874—1965) представляет собой вторую часть его труда «История англоязычных народов». Автор описывает историю Англии при Тюдорах и Стюартах...
Смоленск: Русич, 2006. — 416 с., ил. - (Популярная историческая библиотека. )
Пер. с англ. О. Ю. Ивановой, С. Н. Самуйлова.
Впервые выходящая на русском языке книга выдающегося английского государственного деятеля У. С. Черчилля (1874—1965) представляет собой вторую часть его труда «История англоязычных народов». Автор описывает историю Англии при Тюдорах и Стюартах...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 441 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-729-2. В центре настоящего исследования находятся жизненный путь и творчество выдающегося английского мыслителя, реформатора, переводчика Библии на английский язык Уильяма Тиндела (1494—1536). Наряду с библейскими переводами Т.Г. Чугунова рассматривает обширное наследие богослова, его...
М.: СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 441 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN: 978-5-98712-729-2. В центре настоящего исследования находятся жизненный путь и творчество выдающегося английского мыслителя, реформатора, переводчика Библии на английский язык Уильяма Тиндела (1494—1536). Наряду с библейскими переводами Т.Г. Чугунова рассматривает обширное наследие богослова, его...
Москва; СПб.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2017. — 446 с. — (Mediaevalia). — ISBN 978-5-98712-729-2. В центре настоящего исследования находятся жизненный путь и творчество выдающегося английского мыслителя, реформатора, переводчика Библии на английский язык Уильяма Тиндела (1494-1536). Наряду с библейскими переводами Т.Г. Чугунова рассматривает обширное наследие богослова, его...
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского государственного ордена Ленина университета им. А.А. Жданова, 1957. — 163 с. Книга дает обзор интересных, но недостаточно освещенных в советской исторической науке вопросов истории Англии второй половины XVI в. Очерки составлены на основании литературы и источников и предназначены для студентов, учителей и широкого круга читателей. Предисловие...
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского государственного ордена Ленина университета им. А.А. Жданова, 1957. — 163 с. Книга дает обзор интересных, но недостаточно освещенных в советской исторической науке вопросов истории Англии второй половины XVI в. Очерки составлены на основании литературы и источников и предназначены для студентов, учителей и широкого круга читателей. Предисловие...
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ISBN: 5-89329-355-X (I том)
ISBN: 5-89329-531-5 (II том)
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