Author: Sir Edward DonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
The Household Book (1510-1551) of Sir Edward Don
Author: Sir Edward DonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England
Author: Steven GunnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191634883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his regime stood his new men, low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will and in the process built their own careers and their families' fortunes. Some are well known, like Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Ireland, or Empson and Dudley, executed to buy popularity for the young Henry VIII. Others are less famous. Sir Robert Southwell was the king's chief auditor, Sir Andrew Windsor the keeper of the king's wardrobe, Sir Thomas Lovell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer so trusted by Henry that he was allowed to employ the former Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel as his household falconer. Some paved the way to glory for their relatives. Sir Thomas Brandon, master of the horse, was the uncle of Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. Sir Henry Wyatt, keeper of the jewel house, was father to the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. This volume, based on extensive archival research, presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the new men. It analyses the offices and relationships through which they exercised power and the ways they gained their wealth and spent it to sustain their new-found status. It establishes their importance in the operation of Henry's government and, as their careers continued under his son, in the making of Tudor England.
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
Author: Steven J. GunnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198802862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII. Henry fought many wars throughout his reign, and this book explores how this came to dominate English culture and shape attitudes to the king and to national history, with people talking and reading about war, and spending money on weaponry and defence.
The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles
Author: Paulina KewesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199565759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 811
Book Description
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages
Author: Huw PrycePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199285462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An engaging collection of thought-provoking essays examining power struggles and political identities in medieval Britain, featuring work from leading historians in the field. Celebrating the work of the late Rees Davies - a towering figure in the historiography of this period - the book focuses on his interests, opening up new perspectives on the political, social, and cultural history of the middle ages.
By the Numbers
Author: Jessica Marie OtisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197608779
Category : Numeracy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--
Cardiganshire County History Volume 2
Author: Geraint H. JenkinsPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Cardiganshire County History Volume 2 is published by the University of Wales Press on behalf of the Ceredigion Historical Society, in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. This volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative account, written by distinguished authors in fifteen chapters, of the wide range of social, economic, political, religious and cultural forces that shaped the ethos and character of the county of Cardiganshire over a period of 600 years. This was a period of great turbulence and change. It witnessed conquest and castle-building, the impact of the Glyndŵr rebellion, the coming of the Protestant Reformation, and the turmoil of civil war. Over time, the inhabitants of the county developed a sense of themselves as a distinctive people who dwelt in a recognisable entity. From very early on, literate people took pride in their native patch; in the eyes of the learned Sulien (d. 1091) and his sons, the land of Ceredig was a sacred patria. Poets and scribes burnished the reputation of the county, and a vibrant poem by Siôn Morys in 1577 maintained that it was the best of shires and ‘the fold of the generous ones’.
Bride Ales and Penny Weddings
Author: R. A. HoustonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199680876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Looks at regionally distinctive practices of wedding traditions in Britain from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, in order to understand social networks, community attitudes, and local and regional identities.
A Biographical Register of the Franciscans in the Custody of York, C.1229-1539
Author: Michael J. P. RobsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993238390
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This title contains documents assembled from a wide range of sources and sheds vivid light on the lives and careers of the Franciscan movement.
People, Places and Perspectives
Author: Keith DockrayPublisher: Nonsuch Publishing, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
People, Places and Perspectives