Research Catalog

Title

Tudor England / John Guy.

Author

Guy, John.

Publication

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xiii, 582 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Focuses on the society, politics and culture of Tudor England, examines its strengths and weaknesses and portrays the personalities and politics of the monarchs and politicians.

Subject

• Tudor, House of
• Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603
• England > Civilization > 16th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [514]-537.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The advent of the Tudors -- The condition of England -- Henry VII -- Wolsey's ascendancy -- The break with Rome -- Henrician government -- Politics, religion, war -- Reformation and counter-reformation -- Elizabeth I : the English Deborah? -- Elizabethan religion -- Privy council and parliaments -- The war with Spain -- The making of the Tudor state -- Elizabethan government -- Political culture -- The Tudor fin de siècle.

ISBN

0198730888 :

LCCN

^^^88005371^

OCLC

• 17677564
• SCSB-12235644

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library