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England Under the Tudors G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)

England Under the Tudors By G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)

England Under the Tudors by G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)

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England Under the Tudors by G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)

'Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, Preface

Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history.

Revised several times since its first publication in 1955, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental changes in religion, monarchy, and government - and one that continued to shape British history long after.

Spanning the commencement of Henry VII's reign to the death of Elizabeth I, Elton's magisterial account is populated by many colourful and influential characters, from Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cranmer, and Thomas Cromwell to Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots. Elton also examines aspects of the Tudor period that had been previously overlooked, such as empire and commonwealth, agriculture and industry, seapower, and the role of the arts and literature.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

England Under the Tudors Reviews

'The best full-length introductory history of the Tudor period... Written with great verve, it will delight both the scholar and the general reader.' The Spectator

'Witty, muscular, clear, and above everything else, readable.' Times Educational Supplement


'The best full-length introductory history of the Tudor period...Written with great verve, it will delight both the scholar and the general reader.' - The Spectator

'Witty, muscular, clear and above everything else, readable.' - Times Educational Supplement

About G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)

G.R.Elton (1921-1994) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Renowned as one of the leading historians of his era and the author of many influential books on the Tudor period, he was also a defender of a traditional, factual-based view of history. He was famous for his role in the influential 'Carr-Elton Debate' in the 1960s, where he argued for a scientific approach to history against the historian E.H.Carr's more relativistic view.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition - Diarmaid MacCulloch

Preface to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

List of maps and diagrams

  2. The Tudor Problem

  4. Henry VII: Securing the Dynasty

  6. Henry VII: Restoration of Government

  8. The Great Cardinal

  10. The King's Great Matter

  12. Thomas Cromwell and the Break with Rome

  14. The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth

  16. The Crisis of the Tudors, 1540-58

  18. England During the Price Revolution

  20. The Elizabethan Settlement

  22. The Growing Conflict, 1568-85

  24. Seapower

  26. War, 1585-1603

  28. The Structure of the Age: Conservatism

  30. The Structure of the Age: Renaissance

  32. The Last Years

  34. Revisions (1990)

Bibliography

Index

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GOR010526953
9781138602748
1138602744
England Under the Tudors by G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)
G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK)
Routledge Classics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-09-27
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