Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government : Papers and Reviews 1946-1972. Volume 1. Tudor Politics Tudor Government
G. R. Elton (Author)
The papers collected in these volumes revolve around the political, constitutional and personal problems of the English government between the end of the fifteenth-century civil wars and the beginning of those of the seventeenth century. Previously published in a great variety of places, none of them appeared in book form before.
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. The terminal date of Caesar's Gallic proconsulate; Part I. Tudor Politics: 2. Renaissance monarchy?; 3. Henry VII: rapacity and remorse; 4. Henry VII: a restatement; 5. The King of Hearts; 6. Cardinal Wolsey; 7. Thomas More, councillor; 8. Sir Thomas More and the opposition to Henry VIII; 9. King or minister? the man behind the Henrician Reformation; 10. Thomas Cromwell's decline and fall; 11. The good duke; 12. Queen Elizabeth; Part II. Tudor Government: 13. The problems and significance of administrative history in the Tudor period; 14. The rule of law in sixteenth-century England; 15. State planning in early Tudor England; 16. Henry VII's council; 17. Government by edict?; 18. Why the history of the Early Tudor council remains unwritten; 19. Henry VIII's Act of Proclamations; 20. The Elizabethan exchequer: war in the receipt; General index; Index of authors cited.