J.P.Sommerville

 

III: HENRY VIII: POLITICAL STRUCTURES

Q: 'The politics of the reign of Henry VIII were court politics'. Discuss

 

  1. GR Elton, Reform and reformation
  2. EW Ives, Faction in Tudor England (Historical Association pamphlet)
  3. David Starkey 'The age of the household' in Stephen Medcalf, ed, The later middle ages
  4. JJ Scarisbrick, Henry VIII
  5. David Starkey, The reign of Henry VIII: personalities and politics
  6. GR Elton, The Tudor revolution in government
  7. C Coleman and D Starkey, eds., Revolution reassessed: revisions in the history of Tudor government and administration
  8. D MacCulloch, ed., The reign of Henry VIII. Politics, policy and piety
  9. J Guy ed., The Tudor monarchy
  10. G. W. Bernard, Power and Politics in Tudor England.  2000
  11. John McGurk ed., The Tudor Monarchies, 1485-1603 CUP 1999

 

Definitions and description

  1. GR Elton 'Tudor Government: the points of contact: III The Court', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1976
  2. M Girouard, Life in the English country house
  3. David Starkey 'Representation through Intimacy' in Joan Lewis, ed, Symbols and sentiments
  4. JA Murphy 'Popinjays or professionals: officers and ministers of the mid-Tudor household', Exeter Studies in History, 1981
  5. Richard Rex, The Tudors, Stroud 2002

 

Personalities and incidents

  1. G Bernard 'The rise of Sir William Compton, early Tudor courtier' English Historical Review, 96 (1981)
  2. G Bernard, The power of the early Tudor nobility: a study of the fourth and fifth earls of Shrewsbury
  3. GR Elton, 'Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace' in B Malament, ed, After the Reformation (also in Elton's Studies in Tudor and Stuart politics and government, vol 3)
  4. EW Ives, Letters and Accounts of William Brereton of Malpas, Record society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 116 (1976)
  5. EW Ives, 'Faction at the court of Henry VIII: the fall of Anne Boleyn' History 57 (1972)
  6. JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
  7. David Starkey 'Igtham Mote: Politics and architecture in early Tudor England' Archaeologia, 107 (1981) -- summarized in History Today 30 (1980)
  8. Narasingha Prosad Sil 'The rise and fall of Sir John Gates' Historical Journal 24 (1981)

 

Court and country: a suggested interpretation

  1. David Starkey 'The political structure of early Tudor England' in M Falkus and J Gillingham, eds, Historical Atlas of Great Britain
  2. Diane Willen, John Russell, first earl of Bedford: one of the king's men
  3. David Starkey 'From feud to faction: English politics c.1450- c.1550' History Today 32, (1982)
  4. David Starkey 'Court, council, and nobility in Tudor England', in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility.

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