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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808016603321

Autore

Morris T. A (Terence Alan), <1949->

Titolo

Europe and England in the sixteenth century / / T.A. Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-74819-1

1-134-74820-5

1-280-11077-5

0-203-01463-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Disciplina

940.21

Soggetti

Europe History 1517-1648

Great Britain History 1485-

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction How to Use This Book; Chapter One The Sixteenth Century in Context; Chapter Two The Intellectual Context of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter Three The European Reconnaissance; Chapter Four The First Generation of Religious Reform; Chapter Five Calvin and Calvinism; Chapter Six The Catholic Counter Reformation; Chapter Seven Spain 1469-1555: From Unification to World Power; Chapter Eight England in the Reign of Henry VII; Chapter Nine International Conflict; Chapter Ten Henry VIII The Ascendancy of Wolsey; Chapter Eleven The Henrician Reformation

Chapter Twelve France in the Reigns of Francis I and Henry IIChapter Thirteen Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in the Time of Charles V; Chapter Fourteen The Reigns of Edward and Mary A Mid Tudor Crisis; Chapter Fifteen The French Wars of Religion; Chapter Sixteen The Revolt of the Netherlands; Chapter Seventeen Spain under Philip II; Chapter Eighteen The England of Elizabeth State Church and Society; Chapter Nineteen The England of Elizabeth The Realm in Danger; Chapter Twenty Henry IV and the Recovery of France; Appendix Comparative Questions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative textbook uniquely combines an integrated survey of European and English history in the sixteenth century. The book is



structured in three parts: the Western european Environment, The Rise of the Great Monarchies and the Crisis of the Great Monarchies. It covers political, social, religious and economic history from the late Renaissance to Mary Stuart and Philip II. It recognises the amount of common belief and interest between the British Isles and Western Europe in the century of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and indicates how events on one side of the Channel influe