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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143266203321

Titolo

A companion to Tudor Britain [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert Tittler and Norman Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-78268-724-6

1-280-19872-9

9786610198726

1-4051-6562-6

0-470-99710-9

1-4051-3740-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (610 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to British history

Altri autori (Persone)

TittlerRobert

JonesNorman L <1951-> (Norman Leslie)

Disciplina

941.05

Soggetti

Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Handbooks, manuals, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-562) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Establishing the Tudor dynasty / David Grummitt -- The rise of the Tudor state / Joe Block -- Elizabethan government and politics / David Dean -- The courts / Retha Warnicke -- The law / DeLloyd Guth -- County government in England and Wales / Steve Hindle -- Town and city government / Catherine F. Patterson -- Regional political relations / Steven Ellis -- Politics and government of Scotland / Jenny Wormald -- Anglo-Scottish relations / Jane Dawson -- Britain and the wider world / David Potter -- Traditional belief and practice / Ben R. McRee -- The dissolutions and their aftermath / Peter Cunich -- Religious settlements / Norman Jones -- Catholic recusancy / William Sheils -- Protestant dissent in Elizabethan England / Peter Kaufman -- The Scottish Reformation / Michael F. Graham -- Rural economy and society / R.W. Hoyle -- The urban economy / Alan Dyer -- The great metropolis / Joseph Ward -- Society and social relations / Robert Tittler -- Women in the British Isles / Anne Laurence -- The sense of the past / D.R. Woolf -- Tudor drama, theatre, and society / Alexandra F. Johnston -- Portraiture, politics, and society / Robert Tittler --



Architecture, politics, and society / Malcolm Airs -- Music, politics, and society / John Milsom -- Science, technology, and society / Leslie B. Cormack.

Sommario/riassunto

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 BritainFocuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elementsEmphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themesDescribes differing political and personal experiences of the timeDiscusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the re