Power in Tudor England

by David Loades

Overview

England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe. The Tudors built on this situation to reduce still further the provincial power of the nobility, and to eliminate the remaining jurisdictional franchises. But sixteenth century England was not monolithic, nor homogeneous. There were still strong local identities, both political and culture, and the Tudors achieved success by working through the local elites, rather than against them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333598375
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/04/1996
Series:	British Studies Series , #5
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

David Loades is a well-known and popular writer on Tudor history. His many works include biographies of leading Tudor personalities and a best-selling textbook, Politics and the Nation 1450-1660. For the National Archives he has written Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (2006) and Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana. His other interests include naval history (he is closely engaged with research on the Mary Rose, and has appeared in TV documentaries on the subject).

David Loades is one of the leading historians of the Tudor monarchy. He is the author of the definitive biography of Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary Tudor: A Life (1989), and of The Tudor Court (second edition, 2003). He is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield and Director of the British Academy John Foxe Project.

Table of Contents

Preamble: a Personal Monarchy
The Nature of Authority Structures
The Council Royal Commissions
The Parliament
The Royal Court
The Special Jurisdictions
Regional and Provincial Identity Maps
Select and Annotated Bibliography
Index.

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'... a lucid and up-to-date account of the machinaries of national and local government and of the distribution of political and social authority ... .' – History Today