Tudor Government Structures of Authority in the Sixteenth Century [Paperback]

This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other.Introduction: Theories of Authority.

1. The Central Machinery.

2. The Regions.

3. The Counties.

4. Hundreds and Parishes.

5. Towns and Cities.

6. The Church.

7. Franchises.

8. The Feudal Structures.

9. Networks.

Conclusion: The Unitary State.

Bibliography.

Index.

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No one interested in Tudor (or, for that matter, Yorkist or Stuart) parliaments will want to leave this work unread. Parliamentary History

David Loades is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales. He taught at the universities of St Andrews and Durham, before moving to University of Wales, Bangor in 1980 as Professor of History. His previous books include Mary Tudor: A Life (Blackwell, 1989), Politics and the Nation: 1450-1660 (4th edn 1992), and The Tudor Court (1986).This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other. It discusses how order and obedience were supposed to be preserved in the countryside, and it shows how the offices designed for that purpose worked in practice. In doing so, Professor Loades highlights the complex links between the formal and informal systems of peace-keeping that functioned throughout the country and examines the critical rlC­