A Companion to Tudor Britain [Paperback]

• An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain
• Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements
• Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes
• Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time
• Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry
• Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

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