The Earlier Tudors, 1485-1558This classic volume in the renowned Oxford History of England series examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-West Europe. John D. Mackie describes the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent Henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay and eccleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-Papalism of Henry VIII. |
Contents
THE NEW MONARCHY | 1 |
Public apathy gave opportunity for a competent king | 8 |
roads and bridges | 37 |
The city and its buildings | 43 |
THE NEW KING AND HIS RIVALS | 46 |
Yorkist defections at Bosworth 22 August 1485 | 54 |
Westminster | 78 |
Taxation for war | 90 |
atmosphere favourable | 336 |
Divorce was the occasion not the cause of the Reformation | 348 |
England still supports the king | 363 |
38 | 370 |
offers a double advantage | 372 |
The fall of Anne Boleyn 1536 | 379 |
The Pilgrimage of Grace | 385 |
birth of Prince Edward 12 October 1537 | 394 |
the treaty never ratified | 96 |
Breakup of the coalition ΤΟΙ | 102 |
28 | 108 |
30 | 115 |
Mystery of Perkin Warbeck | 117 |
attack on the Steelyard | 124 |
Perkin in Scotland | 134 |
Parliament of January 1497 votes money for the war | 140 |
32 | 144 |
Surrender of Perkin October 1497 and capture of his wife | 146 |
Henrys refusal of Mediterranean enterprises | 156 |
The Spanish Marriage | 172 |
England cultivates the Netherlands | 181 |
Success of Henrys foreign policy | 188 |
the yeomen and the guns | 208 |
Death of Henry 21 April 1509 | 228 |
The young king | 234 |
William Grocin and Thomas Linacre | 241 |
Erasmus in England on the invitation of Mountjoy 14991500 | 249 |
33 | 256 |
The Utopia 1516 258 | 258 |
English thought in the main conservative | 266 |
Foreign policy conventional hostility to France | 267 |
34 | 281 |
Triumphant Realpolitik | 285 |
emphasis on authority | 291 |
36 | 304 |
Wolseys foreign policy | 305 |
Wolsey not altogether to blame for the failure of his policy | 321 |
37 | 330 |
The kings disposal of monastic wealth | 400 |
39 | 405 |
royal absolutism | 413 |
Mary enters London 3 August 1553 | 435 |
40 | 438 |
his achievement | 442 |
Working hours and wages | 455 |
Realpolitik not new 267 | 461 |
Abortive rising of Sir Thomas Wyatt January 1554 | 468 |
exports and imports | 470 |
The government realist in its economic policy | 477 |
factions and discontents | 488 |
dearth amid plenty | 503 |
THE REIGN OF MARY | 526 |
Flight of foreign reformers | 540 |
His arrival in England | 548 |
17 November 1558 | 560 |
the English printers | 579 |
John Skelton | 585 |
a virile native style | 591 |
main interest in portraits | 598 |
APPENDIX | 604 |
between pages 655 | 655 |
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