Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485 - 1714, thistext brings together an impressive array of documents from the Tudor–Stuart period of English history. The documents are drawn from widely differing media and range from parliamentary statutes and political pamphlets to household bills and personal diary entries. They illuminate a variety of important topics of the era, including political and religious revolutions, social and economic transformations, and intellectual ferment. INDICE: List of Plates.Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition.Preface and Acknowledgments to the First Edition.Abbreviations.1. Social Order and Tensions in Tudor England.Great Chain of Being.Social Order, Social Change, and the State.Foreigners View English Society.2. Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge.Edward IV, Richard III, and the Re-Assertion of Royal Power.Claiming the Throne: Richard III, Henry VIII, and the Pretenders.Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey.Tudor Revolutions in England, Wales, and Ireland?.3. The Old Church Defended and Attacked.The Old Church Remembered, Criticized, and Defended.Henry VIIIs Great Matter.The New Church Established.Conservative Reaction.Protestant vs. Catholic under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.4. Elizabethan Worlds.Imperial Ambitions; Geopolitical Realities.Between Jesuits and Puritans.Elizabethan Performances.5. Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women.Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions.Good Wife, Bad Wife, Poor Wife, Witch.Poor laws and the Reform of Popular Culture.6. Early Stuart Church and State.Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism.Puritans and Anti-Puritans.The Crisis of Parliaments in the 1620s.The Personal Rule.The Constitution Reformed or Deformed?.7. Civil War and Revolution.Warand Reaction in the Three British Kingdoms.Constitutional Experiments and Radical Solutions.Radicals, Sectaries, and their Brave New World.8. Religion, Restoration, and Revolution.Dissenters, Catholics, and the Church of England.Whigvs. Tory.James II, William of Orange, and the Revolution of 1688-89.9. Later Stuart Politics, Thought, and Society.Revolution Settlements Debated.The Rage of Party.Landed Interest versus Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Ideas.Bibliography of Online Document Archives.Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6276-0
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés