England Under the Tudors

G.R. Elton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429854415
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

'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.

Index

Note: Headings in italics indicate a document title. Page numbers with n indicate a note and its number.

Admiralty, Court of 415

Admonition to the Parliament, First and Second 315

Africa, voyages to 254, 335, 339

agriculture 7–8, 82–83, 191, 210–211, 233–235, 461, 491, 492–493 see also enclosures

Aguila, Juan de 396

Akbar 341–342

Albany, duke of see Stuart

Alençon, Francis, duke of 306, 319, 326, 327–328, 329, 332

Alexander VI (pope) 336

Alford, Francis 333n5

Alfred (England) 356

Allen, William (cardinal) 295, 310, 464

Alva, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, duke of 300–302, 304, 305, 306

Amadas, Philip 354

Amicable Grant see revenue, royal

Andrewes, Lancelot 460

Angus, earl of see Douglas

Anjou, duke of see Alençon Henry III (France)

Anne of Beaujeu 25

Anne of Brittany 25–26, 49

Anselm (archbishop) 110

Antiquaries, Society of 438

Antonio, Don 329, 362, 381–382

Antwerp 194–195, 232, 248–251, 301, 306, 327, 369

apprentices, statute of see Statutes of, apprecentices or artificers

Aquinas, St Thomas 429

architecture 441–442

Arden of Feversham 456

Ardres, peace of (1547) 202

Armada, Spanish (1588) 314, 334, 358–359, 366, 374–379, 380–383

Armstrong, Clement 190

army 44, 281, 363–365, 366, 368

Arran, earls of see ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• List Of Maps And Diagrams
• I. The Tudor Problem
• II. Henry VII: Securing the Dynasty
• III. Henry VII: Restoration of Government
• IV. The Great Cardinal
• V. The King’s Great Matter
• VI. Thomas Cromwell and the Break with Rome
• VII. The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth
• VIII. The Crisis of the Tudors, 1540–58
• IX. England During the Price Revolution
• X. The Elizabethan Settlement, 1558–68
• XI. The Growing Conflict, 1568–85
• XII. Seapower
• XIII. War, 1585–1603
• XIV. The Structure of the Age: Conservatism
• XV. The Structure of the Age: Renaissance
• XVI. The Last Years
• XVII. Revisions (1990)
• Bibliography
• Index