Sources and Debates in English History, 1485 - 1714

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6276-0
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

Designed to accompany the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714, this updated and expanded Sourcebook brings together an impressive array of Tudor-Stuart documents and illustrations, as well as extensive bibliographies and research and discussion guides. - New edition contains 50 new documents, more explanatory text, illustrations, biographical background, and study questions

- Wide range of documents, from both manuscript and print sources, and from transcripts of private and public life

- Editorial material introduces students to the critical context; chapter bibliographies and questions allow ready integration into classroom, and research and source analysis assignments.

- Bibliography of Historians’ Debates with the latest articles and essays

- Accompanies the survey text Early Modern England: 1485-1714

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Key, Newton

Bucholz, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Documents vii

List of Plates xiv

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xviii

Abbreviations xix

1 Social Order and Tensions in Tudor England 1

Great Chain of Being 2

Social Order, Social Change, and the State 9

Foreigners View English Society 16

Historians’ Debates 19

Additional Source Collections 21

2 Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge 22

Edward IV, Richard III, and the Reassertion of Royal Power 24

Claiming the Throne: Richard III, Henry VIII, and the Pretenders 28

Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey 37

Tudor Revolutions in England, Wales, and Ireland? 41

Historians’ Debates 46

Additional Source Collections 48

3 Religious Reformations 49

The Old Church Remembered, Criticized, and Defended 50

Henry VIII’s Great Matter 55

The New Church Established 57

Conservative Reaction 62

Protestant vs. Catholic under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I 65

Historians’ Debates 74

Additional Source Collections 77

4 Elizabethan Worlds 78

Imperial Ambitions; Geopolitical Realities 78

Between Jesuits and Puritans 90

Elizabethan Performances 96

Historians’ Debates 105

Additional Source Collections 108

5 Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women 109

Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions 109

Good Wife, Bad Wife, Poor Wife, Witch 119

Poor Laws and the Reform of Popular Culture 127

Historians’ Debates 133

Additional Source Collections 136

6 Early Stuart Church and State 137

Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism 137

Puritans and Anti-Puritans 142

The Crisis of Parliaments 148

The Personal Rule 158

The Constitution Reformed or Deformed? 160

Historians’ Debates 167

Additional Source Collections 170

7 Civil War and Revolution 171

War and Reaction in the Three British Kingdoms 171

Constitutional Experiments, Regicide, and Reconfiguration 184

Radicals, Sectaries, and Revolving New Notions 193

Historians’ Debates 203

Additional Source Collections 206

8 Religion, Restoration, and Revolution 208

Dissenters, Catholics, and the Church of England 208

Whig vs. Tory 219

James II, William of Orange, and the Revolution of 1688–9 229

Historians’ Debates 237

Additional Source Collections 240

9 Later Stuart Politics, Thought, and Society 241

Revolution Settlements Debated 241

The Rage of Party 259

Landed Interest versus Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Ideas 266

Historians’ Debates 278

Additional Source Collections 280

Bibliography of Online Document Archives 282

Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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.