A Companion to Tudor Britain

Tittler, Robert / Jones, Norman (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to British History

1. Edition December 2008
608 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8974-3

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

Winner of the Roland Bainton Prize for the best reference work in 2004, A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of scholarship and debates about this period. The book looks at the British Isles in their entirety, exploring what was common and what was distinct to the sovereign kingdoms of England and Scotland, the client kingdom of Ireland, and the principality of Wales. The contributors represent a broad range of historiographical and methodological perspectives. Their contributions define the current state of their fields and indicate the likely directions of future work.

Further versions

A Companion to Tudor Britain provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles.
* An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain
* Focuses on the whole British Isles, exploring what was common and what was distinct to its four constituent elements
* Emphasises big cultural, social, intellectual, religious and economic themes
* Describes differing political and personal experiences of the time
* Discusses unusual subjects, such as the sense of the past amongst British constituent identities, the relationship of cultural forms to social and political issues, and the role of scientific inquiry
* Bibliographies point readers to further sources of information

List of Maps.

List of Contributors.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Robert Tittler and Norman Jones.

Part I Government and Politics.

Part II Belief: Introduction.

Part III People and Groups.

Part IV Culture.

Bibliography.

Index

Robert Tittler is Professor of History at Concordia University. His recent publications include The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture c. 1540-1640 (1998) and Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540-1640 (2001). He is co-founder and Chair of the Montreal British History Seminar and Chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama.

Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His recent publications include The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell, 1992) and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (Blackwell, 2002).

R. Tittler, Concordia University; N. Jones, Utah State University