The Tudors
The Tudors

Author: David Loades

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-03-08

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1441193782

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David Loades provides a masterful overview of this formative period of British history. Exploring the reign of each monarch within the framework of the dynasty, he unpacks the key questions surrounding the monarchy; the relationship between church and the state, development of government, war and foreign policy, the question of Ireland and the issue of succession in Tudor politics. Loades considers the recent scholarship on the dynasty as a whole, paying particular attention to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor. He also considers how recent revisionist history asks new questions of their political and personal lives. This places our understanding of the dynasty as a whole in a new light.

The Later Tudors
The Later Tudors

Author: Penry Williams

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998-03-13

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 0192543962

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The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I—a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants. These internal and external struggles created anxiety in England, but by the end of Elizabeth's reign the nation had achieved a remarkable sense of political and religious identity. Penry Williams combines the political, religious and economic history of the nation with a broader analysis of English society, family relations, and culture, in order to explain the workings and development of the English state. The result is an incisive and wide-ranging analysis that culminates in an assessment of England's part in the shaping of the New World.

The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558
The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558

Author: John Duncan Mackie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1952

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9780198217060

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This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and eccleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-Papalism of Henry VIII.

Tudors
Tudors

Author: Richard Rex

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-11-15

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1445644037

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The illustrated history of the Tudors from the finest historians working on the period today.

The Tudors
The Tudors

Author: Max Abraham White

Publisher: Origin of Books

Published: 2018-06-09

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 172083301X

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“The five sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty are among the most well-known figures in Royal history. Of Welsh origin, Henry VII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York to found the highly successful Tudor house. Henry VII, his son Henry VIII and his three children Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I ruled for 118 eventful years. “During this period, England developed into one of the leading European colonial powers, with men such as Sir Walter Raleigh taking part in the conquest of the New World. Nearer to home, campaigns in Ireland brought the country under strict English control. “Culturally and socially, the Tudor period saw many changes. The Tudor court played a prominent part in the cultural Renaissance taking place in Europe, nurturing all-round individuals such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser and Cardinal Wolsey. “The Tudor period also saw the turbulence of three changes of the official religion, resulting in the martyrdom of many innocent believers of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. The fear of Roman Catholicism induced by the Reformation was to last for several centuries and to play an influential role in the history of the Succession.” — The Royal Household © Crown Copyright