Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 3, 2013 - History - 472 pages
The second edition of this bestselling narrative history has been revised and expanded to reflect recent scholarship. The book traces the transformation of England during the Tudor-Stuart period, from feudal European state to a constitutional monarchy and the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth.
  • Written by two leading scholars and experienced teachers of the subject, assuming no prior knowledge of British history
  • Provides student aids such as maps, illustrations, genealogies, and glossary
  • This edition reflects recent scholarship on Henry VIII and the Civil War
  • Extends coverage of the Reformations, the Rump and Barebone's Parliament, Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, and the European, Scottish, and Irish contexts of the Restoration and Revolution of 1688-9
  • Includes a new section on women’s roles and the historiography of women and gender

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Contents

The British Isles physical today
2
The counties of England and Wales before 1972
8
Towns and trade
17
Diagram of an English manor
19
The Wars of the Roses 145585
34
Southern England and western France during the later Middle Ages
35
Henry VII painted terracotta bust by Pietro Torrigiano
43
Henry VIII after Hans Holbein the Younger
55
George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham by William Larkin
226
Charles I by Van Dyck
231
The Bishops Wars and Civil Wars 163760
253
The execution of Charles I
263
Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker 1649
271
The entrance of Charles II at the Restoration 1660
276
Charles II as Patron of the Royal Society by Laroon
284
Western Europe in the age of Louis XIV
291

Europe ca 1560
61
Diagram of the interior of a church before and after the Reformation
73
Early modern Ireland
86
Mary I by Moro
109
J Foxe Acts and Monuments titlepage 1641 edition
113
Elizabeth I The Ditchley Portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ca 1592
117
Spanish possessions in Europe and the Americas
131
First Encounter Between the English and Spanish Fleets from J Pine The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engage...
141
War in Europe 15851604
143
Hatfield House south prospect by Thomas Sadler 1700
170
Tudor farmhouse at Ystradfaelog Llanwnnog Montgomeryshire photo and groundplan
177
Londonca 1600
197
Visschers panorama of London 1616 detail
198
A view of Westminster by Hollar
199
James I by van Somer
218
James II by unknown artist
302
Mary of Modena in Childbed Italian engraving
306
Presentation of the Crown to William III and Mary
310
War and Politics 16891714
315
Queen Anne by Edmund Lilly
332
The War of the Spanish Succession 170214
333
The battle of Blenheim
339
Fighting in a coffeehouse after the trial of Dr Sacheverell
345
The Atlantic world after the Treaty of Utrecht 1713
349
Augustan Polity Society and Culture ca 1714
353
Castle Howard engraving
366
Notes
392
Glossary
406
The Yorkists and Lancastrians
429
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About the author (2013)

Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993) and, with Sir John Sainty, Officials of the Royal Household 1660–1837 (2 volumes, 1997–8). He has written articles on Queen Anne and the court.

Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on provincial and metropolitan politicking in Stuart England and Wales. He is currently at work on a study of patrician/plebeian politics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London.

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