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The Tudor chronicles--the kings / general editor, David Loades.
LIBRA - Furness Storage DA315 .T75 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tudor, House of.
- Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wakeman, Rollin (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
- Contents:
- Part I Henry VII 1485-1509: Henry's Lancastrian roots
- Welsh roots of a dynasty
- Exile and return
- The Bosworth campaign
- The king and his council
- Henry's marriage to Elizabeth
- The development of commerce
- Regional and local administration
- Managing the economy
- The great noble households
- Collecting taxes
- Brittany and France
- The White Rose challenge
- A woman's life
- Court entertainment
- The treason of Sir William Stanley
- Scotland, Ireland and Wales
- Burgundy and Spain
- Patron of ceremony and culture
- Exploration and overseas voyages
- Intellectual and educational developments
- Arthur and Catherine
- Dynastic marriages and family deaths
- Money and the nobility
- The search for a new wife
- Henry's personal piety
- The Church.
- Part II Henry VIII 1509-1547: A Renaissance king
- Catherine of Aragon
- The jouster as statesman
- Courtly fashion
- Henry's early government
- Preparing the navy for war
- War with France and Scotland
- A soldier's life
- The rise of Wolsey
- Courtly magnificence
- Diet of the common people
- The Imperial connection
- The pre-Reformation Church
- European diplomacy
- The Cloth of Gold
- The end of the Tudor line?
- The nobles
- The Boleyns and their enemies
- Financial reform
- Henry's divorce
- A new Church head
- The king's "Great Matter"
- Sexual politics
- Sir Thomas Wyatt and courtly love
- Jane Seymour
- Dissolution of the monasteries
- Local government
- The Pilgrimage of Grace
- Fisher and More's opposition to divorce
- Marriage to Anne of Cleves
- Cromwell's fall
- The return to war
- The Church after 1540
- The court in Henry's final years
- The struggle for control
- Henry's will.
- Part III Edward VI 1547-1553: Protector of the realm
- Edward's education
- Printing and the Reformation
- Social and political discontent
- Somerset's fall
- The rise of Dudley
- The peace of Boulogne
- Reforming the Church
- Mary's wait
- The North-East passage
- The court of the young king
- The succession crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802112935
- 9780802112934
- OCLC:
- 23766830
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