The Tudor monarchy

Arnold

1997

x, 391 p.

Arnold readers in history

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780340652190

Partial contents: 1. Image-making: The means and the limitations / Sydney Anglo. 2. Representation through intimacy: A study in the symbolism of monarchy and Court office in early modern England / David Starkey. 3. Tudor monarchy and its critiques / John Guy. 4. The monarchical republic of Queen Elizabeth I / Patrick Collinson. 5. The countervailing of benefits: Monopoly, liberty, and benevolence in Elizabethan England / David Harris Sacks. 6. The courtiers of Henry VII / Steven Gunn. 7. Court and government / David Starkey. 8. Thomas Cromwell and the intellectual origins of the Henrician revolution / John Guy. 9. Reassessing William Cecil in the 1560s / Stephen Alford. 10. Favourites and factions at the Elizabethan Court / Simon Adams. 11. Ruling elites in the reign of Henry VII / Margaret Condon. 12. Wolsey and the Tudor polity / John Guy. 13. A crisis of the aristocracy? Frontiers and noble power in the early Tudor state / Steven Ellis. 14. Tudor government: The points of contact: Parliament / G. R. Elton. 15. Court and polity under Elizabeth I / Penry Williams

Making available a selection of some of the most significant work on the Tudor Monarchy, this reader gives a good sense of the issues that have preoccupied historians

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