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Book Synopsis The Tudor Regime by : Penry Williams
Download or read book The Tudor Regime written by Penry Williams and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the structure and practice of the political and administrative institutions and processes of early modern England, more specifically, the Tudors. The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. The author concentrates his study on describing the ways in which the Tudor government actually worked, the people who ran it, the impact that it made upon society, and the reasons for its long survival.
Book Synopsis Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by : Steven J. Gunn
Download or read book Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England written by Steven J. Gunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will as he sought to strengthen government after the Wars of the Roses, examining how they exercised power, gained wealth, and spent it to sustain their new-found status.
Download or read book Winter King written by Thomas Penn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2011.
Download or read book The Tudors written by G. J. Meyer and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. “A thoroughly readable and often compelling narrative . . . Five centuries have not diminished the appetite for all things Tudor.”—Associated Press In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to the throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, crossed the English Channel from France at the head of a ragtag little army and took the crown from the family that had ruled England for almost four hundred years. Half a century later his son, Henry VIII, desperate to rid himself of his first wife in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terror aimed at taking powers no previous monarch had even dreamed of possessing. In the process he plunged his kingdom into generations of division and disorder, creating a legacy of blood and betrayal that would blight the lives of his children and the destiny of his country. The boy king Edward VI, a fervent believer in reforming the English church, died before bringing to fruition his dream of a second English Reformation. Mary I, the disgraced daughter of Catherine of Aragon, tried and failed to reestablish the Catholic Church and produce an heir. And finally came Elizabeth I, who devoted her life to creating an image of herself as Gloriana the Virgin Queen but, behind that mask, sacrificed all chance of personal happiness in order to survive. The Tudors weaves together all the sinners and saints, the tragedies and triumphs, the high dreams and dark crimes, that reveal the Tudor era to be, in its enthralling, notorious truth, as momentous and as fascinating as the fictions audiences have come to love. Praise for The Tudors “A rich and vibrant tapestry.”—The Star-Ledger “A thoroughly readable and often compelling narrative . . . Five centuries have not diminished the appetite for all things Tudor.”—Associated Press “Energetic and comprehensive . . . [a] sweeping history of the gloriously infamous Tudor era . . . Unlike the somewhat ponderous British biographies of the Henrys, Elizabeths, and Boleyns that seem to pop up perennially, The Tudors displays flashy, fresh irreverence [and cuts] to the quick of the action.”—Kirkus Reviews “[A] cheeky, nuanced, and authoritative perspective . . . brims with enriching background discussions.”—Publishers Weekly “[A] lively new history.”—Bloomberg
Book Synopsis Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders by : Nathen Amin
Download or read book Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders written by Nathen Amin and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback - Explore a fascinating look at the three pretenders to the Tudor throne - Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick.
Book Synopsis Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government : papers and reviews 1946-1972 by : Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
Download or read book Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government : papers and reviews 1946-1972 written by Geoffrey Rudolph Elton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before. They are arranged in four groups (Tudor Politics and Tudor Government in Volume I, Parliament and Political Thought in Volume II) but these groups interlock. Though written in the course of some two decades, all the pieces bear variously on the same body of major issues and often illuminate details only touched upon in Professor Elton's books. Several investigate the received preconceptions of historians and suggest new ways of approaching familiar subjects. They are reprinted unaltered, but some new footnotes have been added to correct errors and draw attention to later developments.
Book Synopsis House of Treason by : Robert Hutchinson
Download or read book House of Treason written by Robert Hutchinson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers 'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAIL The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay. This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.
Book Synopsis The Tudor Nobility by : G. W. Bernard
Download or read book The Tudor Nobility written by G. W. Bernard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Taxation Under the Early Tudors 1485 - 1547 by : Roger Schofield
Download or read book Taxation Under the Early Tudors 1485 - 1547 written by Roger Schofield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original research, this book marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown but also of the broader political culture of early Tudor England. An original study of taxation under the early Tudors. Explains the significance of the parliamentary lay taxation levied on individuals at this time. Demonstrates the value of the mass of personal tax assessments from this period to social, economic and local historians. Considers the critical position that parliamentary taxation occupies in constitutional history. Sheds light on the political conditions and attitudes prevalent in England under the early Tudors.
Book Synopsis Censorship and Cultural Sensibility by : Debora Shuger
Download or read book Censorship and Cultural Sensibility written by Debora Shuger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate. Virtually all substantive law on language concerned defamation, regulating what one could say about other people. Hence Tudor-Stuart laws extended protection only to the person hurt by another's words, never to their speaker. In treating transgressive language as akin to battery, English law differed fundamentally from papal censorship, which construed its target as heresy. There were thus two models of censorship operative in the early modern period, both premised on religious norms, but one concerned primarily with false accusation and libel, the other with false belief and immorality. Shuger investigates the first of these models—the dominant English one—tracing its complex origins in the Roman law of iniuria through medieval theological ethics and Continental jurisprudence to its continuities and discontinuities with current U.S. law. In so doing, she enables her reader to grasp how in certain contexts censorship could be understood as safeguarding both charitable community and personal dignitary rights.
Download or read book Singing the News written by Jenni Hyde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of finding out news and information. It is a highly readable and accessible account of the important role played by ballads in spreading news during a period when discussing politics was treason. The study provides a new analytical framework for understanding the ways in which balladeers spread their messages to the masses. Jenni Hyde focusses on the melody as much as the words, showing how music helped to shape the understanding of texts. Music provided an emotive soundtrack to words which helped to shape sixteenth-century understandings of gendered monarchy, heresy and the social cohesion of the commonwealth. By combining the study of ballads in manuscript and print with sources such as letters and state records, the study shows that when their topics edged too close to sedition, balladeers were more than capable of using sophisticated methods to disguise their true meaning in order to safeguard themselves and their audience, and above all to ensure that their news hit home.
Book Synopsis Early Tudor Government, 1485–1558 by : Steven Gunn
Download or read book Early Tudor Government, 1485–1558 written by Steven Gunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This marvellous new book sets the developments in the government of England under the early Tudors in the context of recent work on the fifteenth century and on continental Europe.
Book Synopsis How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life by : Ruth Goodman
Download or read book How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life written by Ruth Goodman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selection An erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review). 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 conditions to serve as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this “immersive, engrossing” (Slate) work pays tribute to the lives of those who labored through the era. From using soot from candle wax as toothpaste to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing—the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered for the insatiably curious.
Book Synopsis Tudor Rule and Revolution by : Delloyd J. Guth
Download or read book Tudor Rule and Revolution written by Delloyd J. Guth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of G. R. Elton has inspired its own 'Tudor Revolution' in the historiography of Tudor and Stuart government and society. In this volume a distinguished gathering of eighteen historians, all now resident in North America, pay tribute to Professor Elton's broad influence in shaping modern interpretations of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century constitution. Each contributor to this volume has addressed, directly or indirectly, some aspect of that tempestuous age which has been dubbed 'Elton's era', and each of the sections relates directly to particular problems or topics which have figured prominently in Professor Elton's own work. Most extend his findings in new directions and with new evidence from archival researches. Others take issue with some of his tentative conclusions, though admitting the extent to which his work has made such advances possible.
Book Synopsis The Tudor Constitution by : Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
Download or read book The Tudor Constitution written by Geoffrey Rudolph Elton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on J.R. Tanner's Tudor constitutional documents.
Book Synopsis The Tudor Regime by : Peury Williams
Download or read book The Tudor Regime written by Peury Williams and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594) by : J. Gwynfor Jones
Download or read book The Dialogue of the Government of Wales (1594) written by J. Gwynfor Jones and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones (emer., Welsh history, Cardiff Univ., Wales) offers a volume in two approximately equal parts: a translation of an updated text written in 1594 by George Owen of Henllys, North Pembrokeshire, and an introduction analyzing the text. Owen's subject is the administration of the legal institutions of Wales established by the Acts of Union issued by Henry VIII. The presentation is in the form of a dialogue between the Welshman Demetus (representing Owen's views) and Bartolus, a German traveling around Europe to observe the working of the governmental and legal systems found in various countries. Owen's point of view is that of the gentry who benefitted from Henry VIII's "reforms," as contrasted with the harsh regime earlier established by Henry IV. The dialogue gives a detailed picture of Pembrokeshire but only the sketchiest view of the other parts of Wales, and reflects the social and economic ambitions of the upper class of Welshmen with little regard to the urban dwellers or the more humble rural populace. Nonetheless, the dialogue reveals an interesting attempt to combine the legal court institutions of England with legal customs of Wales. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by K. F. Drew.
