The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England / Andy Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Andy, 1967-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--England--History--16th century.

Insurgency.

Politics and culture--England--History--16th century.

Politics and culture.

History.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1547-1553.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--History--Edward VI, 1547-1553.

England.

Physical Description:

xix, 291 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

A major new study of the 1549 rebellions, the largest and most important risings in Tudor England.

Contents:

Part I Context 19

1 The 1549 rebellions 21

2 'Precious bloody shedding': repression and resistance, 1549-1553 70

Part II Political language 89

3 Speech, silence and the recovery of rebel voices 91

4 Rebel political language 143

Part III Consequences 185

5 The decline of insurrection in later sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England 187

6 Memory, myth and representation: the later meanings of the 1549 rebellions 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521832069

0521832063

OCLC:

154706367