Companion to Tudor Britain (eBook)

Robert Tittler is Professor of History at Concordia University. His recent publications include The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture c. 1540-1640 (1998) and Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640 (2001). He is co-founder and Chair of the Montreal British History Seminar and Chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama. Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His recent publications include The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell, 1992) and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (Blackwell, 2002).

List of Plates x

List of Maps xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements xvii

Introduction 1

Robert Tittler and Norman Jones

Part I Government and Politics.

Introduction 9

1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty 13

David Grummitt

2 The Rise of the Tudor State 29

Joseph S. Block

3 Elizabethan Government and Politics 44

David Dean

4 The Court 61

Retha Warnicke

5 Law 77

DeLloyd J. Guth

6 County Government in England 98

Steve Hindle

7 Town and City Government 116

Catherine F. Patterson

8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State 133

Steven G. Ellis

9 Politics and Government of Scotland 151

Jenny Wormald

10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession 167

Jane E. A. Dawson

11 Britain and the Wider World 182

David Potter

Part II Belief.

Introduction 203

12 Traditional Religion 207

Ben R. McRee

13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath 221

Peter Cunich

14 Religious Settlements 238

Norman Jones

15 Catholics and Recusants 254

William Sheils

16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform
271

Peter Iver Kaufman

17 The Scottish Reformation 289

Michael Graham

Part III People and Groups.

Introduction 309

18 Rural Economy and Society 311

R. W. Hoyle

19 The Urban Economy 330

Alan Dyer

20 Metropolitan London 347

Joseph P. Ward

21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns
363

Robert Tittler

22 Women in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century 381

Anne Laurence

Part IV Culture.

Introduction 403

23 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain 407

Daniel Woolf

24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society 430

Alexandra F. Johnston

25 Portraiture, Politics and Society 448

Robert Tittler

26 Architecture, Politics and Society 470

Malcolm Airs

27 Music, Politics and Society 492

John Milsom

28 Science and Technology 509

Lesley B. Cormack

Bibliography 526

Index 563