Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government: Volume 3, Papers and Reviews 1973-1981

by G. R. Elton

Overview

This volume continues the publication of Professor Elton's collected papers on topics in the history of Tudor and Stuart England. All appeared between 1973 and 1981. As before, they are reprinted exactly as originally published, with corrections and additions in footnotes. They include the author's four presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society and bring together his preliminary findings in the history of Parliament and its records. Several of them, which appeared in various collections and Festschriften, have been difficult to find, and some are taken from locations in Germany and the United States unfamiliar to English readers. The eight lengthy reviews here republished examine some of the major questions in the history of the age and throw light on the principles of investigation which underlie the author's own research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521533164
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/13/2003
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	1.18(w) x 8.50(h) x 5.51(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I. Papers: 33. Tudor government: the points of contact; 34. The materials of Parliamentary history; 35. Parliament in the sixteenth century: functions and fortunes; 36. Politics and the pilgrimage of grace; 37. Taxation for War and peace in Early Tudor England; 38. Reform and the 'Commonwealth-Men' of Edward VI's reign; 39. Arthur Hall, Lord Burghley and the antiquity of Parliament; 40. English law in the sixteenth century: reform in an age of change; 41. Crime and the historian; 42. England and the continent in the sixteenth century; 43. England und die oberdeutsche reform; 44. Contentment and discontent on the eve of colonization; 45. Thomas More; 46. Thomas Cromwell redivivus; 47. J. A. Froude and his history of England; 48. The Historian's social function; Part II. Reviews; General index; Index of authors cited.