A Companion to Tudor Britain

List of Maps xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Preface and Acknowledgements xvii

Introduction 1

Robert Tittler and Norman Jones

Part I Government and Politics.

Introduction 9

1 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty 13
David Grummitt

2 The Rise of the Tudor State 29
Joseph S. Block

3 Elizabethan Government and Politics 44
David Dean

4 The Court 61
Retha Warnicke

5 Law 77
DeLloyd J. Guth

6 County Government in England 98
Steve Hindle

7 Town and City Government 116
Catherine F. Patterson

8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State 133
Steven G. Ellis

9 Politics and Government of Scotland 151
Jenny Wormald

10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession 167
Jane E. A. Dawson

11 Britain and the Wider World 182
David Potter

Part II Belief.

Introduction 203

12 Traditional Religion 207
Ben R. McRee

13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath 221
Peter Cunich

14 Religious Settlements 238
Norman Jones

15 Catholics and Recusants 254
William Sheils

16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform 271
Peter Iver Kaufman

17 The Scottish Reformation 289
Michael Graham

Part III People and Groups.

Introduction 309

18 Rural Economy and Society 311
R. W. Hoyle

19 The Urban Economy 330
Alan Dyer

20 Metropolitan London 347
Joseph P. Ward

21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns 363
Robert Tittler

22 Women in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century 381
Anne Laurence

Part IV Culture.

Introduction 403

23 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain 407
Daniel Woolf

24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society 430
Alexandra F. Johnston

25 Portraiture, Politics and Society 448
Robert Tittler

26 Architecture, Politics and Society 470
Malcolm Airs

27 Music, Politics and Society 492
John Milsom

28 Science and Technology 509
Lesley B. Cormack

Bibliography 526

Index 563