Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Papers and Reviews 1946-1972
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 11/18/2010
EAN 9780521533188, ISBN10: 052153318X
Paperback, 416 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before. They are arranged in four groups (Tudor Politics and Tudor Government in Volume I, Parliament and Political Thought in Volume II) but these groups interlock. Though written in the course of some two decades, all the pieces bear variously on the same body of major issues and often illuminate details only touched upon in Professor Elton's books. Several investigate the received preconceptions of historians and suggest new ways of approaching familiar subjects. They are reprinted unaltered, but some new footnotes have been added to correct errors and draw attention to later developments.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. The terminal date of Caesar's Gallic proconsulate
Part I. Tudor Politics
2. Renaissance monarchy?
3. Henry VII
rapacity and remorse
4. Henry VII
a restatement
5. The King of Hearts
6. Cardinal Wolsey
7. Thomas More, councillor
8. Sir Thomas More and the opposition to Henry VIII
9. King or minister? the man behind the Henrician Reformation
10. Thomas Cromwell's decline and fall
11. The good duke
12. Queen Elizabeth
Part II. Tudor Government
13. The problems and significance of administrative history in the Tudor period
14. The rule of law in sixteenth-century England
15. State planning in early Tudor England
16. Henry VII's council
17. Government by edict?
18. Why the history of the Early Tudor council remains unwritten
19. Henry VIII's Act of Proclamations
20. The Elizabethan exchequer
war in the receipt
General index
Index of authors cited.