Elton,
G.R. England Under the Tudors. Oxford: Routledge, 1991. If further research is done, one will find a
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Contents
Preface
I.
The Tudor Problem,
1-17
II.
Henry VII: Securing
the Dynasty, 18-41
1.
Henry’s Claim to the
Crown
2.
Conspiracies
3.
Ireland and Scotland
4.
The Dynasty Secured
III.
Henry VII:
Restoration of the Government, 42-69
1.
Henry VII’s Kingship
2.
Revenue
3.
Financial
Administration
4.
Law and Order’
5.
Parliament and the
Church
IV.
The Great Cardinal,
70-97
1.
The Early Years of
Henry VIII
2.
Wolsey’s Rule in
England
3.
Wolsey and the
Church
4.
Wolsey’s Foreign
Policy
V.
The King’s Great
Matter, 98-126
1.
The Origins of the
Divorce
2.
State and Church in
England
3.
The Progress of the
Divorce to Wolsey’s Fall
4.
Years with a Policy,
1529-1532
VI.
Thomas Cromwell and
the Break with Rome, 127-159
1.
The New Minister
2.
The Royal Supremacy
3.
The Opposition
4.
The Dissolution of
the Monasteries
5.
Foreign Policy and
Religion, 1536-1540
VII.
The Tudor Revolution: Empire and Commonwealth,
160-192
1.
Sovereignty
2.
Church of England
3.
Parliament
4.
Consolidation of
Territory
5.
Administrative
Reforms
6.
Paternalism
VIII.
The Crisis of the
Tudors (1540-1558), 193-223
1.
The Last Years of
Henry VIII
2.
Edward VI and the
Revival of the Faction
3.
Mary and the Failure
of Reaction
IX.
English During the
Price Revolution, 224-261
1.
The Inflation
2.
The Land
3.
Industry and Trade
4.
Social Changes
X.
The Elizabethan
Settlement (1558-1568), 262-294
1.
The Situation in
1558
2.
The Church of
England Restored
3.
The Reformation in
Scotland
4.
Marriage and
Succession
5.
The Settlement
Secured
6.
The Fall of Mary
Queen of Scots
XI.
The Growing Conflict
(1568-1585), 295-329
1.
The End of Spanish
Amity
2.
The Catholic Threat
3.
The Great Age of
Elizabethan Puritanism
4.
The Constitutional
Question
5.
Alencon and the
Netherlands
XII.
Seapower, 330-356
1.
The Road to Asia:
from Cabot to Fitch
2.
The Caribbean:
Hawkins and Drake
3.
Propaganda and
Colonisation
4.
The Navy
XIII.
War (1585-1603),
357-394
1.
England at War
2.
The Beginning of the
War and the End of Mary Stuart
3.
The Enterprise of
England
4.
The War with Spain,
1589-1603
5.
The Conquest of
Ireland
XIV.
The Structure of the
Age: Conservatism, 395-429
1.
Conservatism
2.
The Crown and
Sovereignty
3.
Government
4.
The Church
XV.
The Structure of the
Age: Renaissance, 430-454
1.
Intellectual
Background
2.
The Fine Arts
3.
Literature
XVI.
The Last Years,
455-475
1.
The Church’s
Adversaries
2.
The Constitutional
Question Again
3.
More Navigations
4.
The Tragedy of Essex
5.
The End
XVII.
Revisions (1972),
476-492
1.
Short Corrections
2.
The Tudor Revolution
3.
England During the
Price Revolution
4.
Puritanism
Bibliography, 493-506
Index, 507
Maps and Diagrams
1.
The Union of Wales
and England, 177
2.
The Atlantic, 388
3.
War with Spain, 369
4.
Ireland, 385
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