Sources and Debates in English History: 1485-1714

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-631-21390-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Designed to accompany the survey text 'Early Modern England: A Narrative History', 'this text brings together an impressive array of documents from the TudorStuart period of English history. The documents are drawn from widely differing media and range from parliamentary statutes and political pamphlets to household bills and personal diary entries. They illuminate a variety of important topics of the era, including political and religious revolutions, social and economic transformations, and intellectual ferment.
The material is introduced and set in context, and questions for debate and suggestions for further reading are included within each chapter. There is also a guide to primary material on the Internet.

Zielgruppe

students of the history of early modern England, early modern Britain, the Tudor period or the Stuart period, general readers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Key, Newton

Bucholz, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Order and Disorder in Tudor England:

Great Chain of Being

Family, Household, Village, Town, Metropolis

State and Society

2. A Yorkist or a Tudor Revolution in Government?

Tackling Noble Disorder

Claiming the Throne

Comparing Monarchs

3. The Old Church Defended and Attacked:

The Old Church Criticized and Defended

The New Church Established

Martyrs and the New Church Re-established

4. Elizabethan Worlds:

The First Empire, Ireland, Scotland, and the War with Spain

Between Jesuits and Puritans

The Stage and the Globe

5. Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women:

Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions

The Scold, the Witch, and the Almswoman

Poor Laws and the Reform of Popular Culture

6. Early Stuart Church and State:

Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism

The Crisis of Parliaments in the 1620s

Laudianism, Puritanism, and the Personal Rule

The Constitution Reformed or Deformed

7. Civil War and Revolution:

War and Recreation in the Three British Kingdoms

Trial of the King and the New State Envisioned

Radicals, Sectaries, and the Second Coming

8. Religion, restoration, and Revolution:

Comprehension, Toleration, and Antipopery

Whig and Tory Ideas and Actions

James II, William of Orange and the Revolution

9. Later Stuart Thought and Society after the Revolution:

Revolution Settlements Debated

Monarchs, War, Religion and the Rage of the Party

Landed Interest, Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Manners

Bibliography: including Online Documents of Early Modern England

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University.
Robert Bucholz is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago.

Loyola University, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston