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Author: John A F Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1317898672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid insight into Tudor life.
Author: Steven Gunn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1995-05-10
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1349239658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: T.A. Morris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-08
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 113465376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTudor Government looks at English government across all the Tudor reigns, including those of Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth, and explores such themes as: the role of parliament law and order the government of the church the personal role of the monarch.
Author: Ken Farnhill
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781903153055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social and religious functions of the fraternities are then compared with the parish, through a study of the records of two Norfolk market towns (Wymondham and Swaffham) and two Suffolk villages (Bardwell and Cratfield). The evidence illuminates the role of the guilds in the social and religious life of the local community, along with their position within the parish hierarchy. A final chapter studies the fortunes of the guilds during the early years of the Reformation, up to their dissolution in 1548"--Jacket.
Author: Joe Chick
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-12-13
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1783277564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterrogates the standard view of turbulent and violent town-abbey relations through a combination of traditional and new research techniques.
Author: Christopher Harper-Bill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1317888146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a concise synthesis of the valuable research accomplished in recent years which has transformed our view of religious belief and practice in pre-Reformation England. The author argues that the church was neither in a state of crisis, nor were its members clamouring for change, let alone `reformation' during the early years of Henry VIII's reign.
Author: Elizabeth Norton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-07-04
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1681774909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIII’s sister; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.
Author: Robert C. Palmer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-10-15
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0807861391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees. But a series of statutes enacted by Henry VIII between 1529 and 1540 effectively reduced such clerical absenteeism. Robert Palmer examines this transformation of the English parish and argues that it was an important part of the English Reformation. Palmer analyzes an extensive set of data drawn from common law records to reveal a vigorous and effective effort by the laity to enforce the new statutes. Motivated by both economic and traditional ideals, the litigants made the commercial activities of leaseholding and buying for resale and profit the exclusive domain of the laity and acquired the power to regulate the clergy. According to Palmer, these parish-level reformations presaged and complemented other initiatives of the crown that have long been considered central to the reign of Henry VIII.
Author: Michael Everett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-03-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0300213085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell’s early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VIII’s chief minister. Michael Everett provides a new and enlightening account of Cromwell’s rise to power, his influence on the king, his role in the Reformation, and his impact on the future of the nation. Controversially, Everett depicts Cromwell not as the fervent evangelical, Machiavellian politician, or the revolutionary administrator that earlier historians have perceived. Instead he reveals Cromwell as a highly capable and efficient servant of the Crown, rising to power not by masterminding Henry VIII’s split with Rome but rather by dint of exceptional skills as an administrator.
Author: Beat A. Kümin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1351881981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secular dimensions of parish life. The argument focuses on the role of the laity and especially on the office of churchwarden. It assesses the rising levels of parish income, the importance of the social context for fund-raising strategies, and the growing expenditure on priests, voluntary activities and administrative duties. The final part discusses the Reformation-related reduction in religious options and the intensifying trend towards oligarchical parish regimes and official local government responsibilities. Wherever possible, the English situation is put into sharper focus by comparisons with local ecclesiastical life on the Continent and appendices provide a detailed financial analysis for a large number of parishes.
