Tudor frontiers and noble power : the making of the British state / Steven G. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Steven G., 1950-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility.

History.

Power (Social sciences).

Great Britain--Politics and government--1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Power (Social sciences)--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Nobility--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Tudor, House of.

Physical Description:

xxi, 303 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995.

Summary:

Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power takes a new and controversial look at Tudor government and the formation of the British state, from the perspective of the borderlands which collectively made up over half of English territory. Steven Ellis argues that it was the frontiers, not lowland England, which provided the real test of Tudor statesmanship. After 1534 the borderlands were drawn more closely into the Tudor state but by a policy which was seriously flawed and could not be applied to Scotland after 1603.

Contents:

Part I The Problem of the Marches

Introduction: The Tudor borderlands in context 3

1. The origins of the early-Tudor problem 18

2. Early-Tudor policy and perceptions 46

Part II Noble Power and Border Rule

3. The estates and connexion of Lord Dacre of the North 81

4. The estates and connexion of the earl of Kildare 107

5. The Dacre ascendancy in the far north 146

Part III The Crisis of 1534

6. The origins of the crisis 173

7. Confrontation: the Irish campaign of 1534-1535 and its consequences 207

8. Submission and survival: Dacre fortunes in Henry VIII's later years 233

Conclusion: Tudor government and the transformation of the Tudor state 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-286).

Includes index.

ISBN:

0198201338 :

OCLC:

31865275