J.P.Sommerville

 

VI: 1500-1600 REBELLION

Q: Why did Tudor people rebel against their rulers?

 

Useful introduction

  1. A Fletcher, Tudor rebellions (5th edition, 2004)
  2. David Starkey 'The string untuned: a riot at Hoddesdon, 1534' History Today 29 (1979), and cf Fortescue (counters 1.)
  3. Alison Wall, Power and Protest in England, 1525-1640. Reconstructions in Early Modern History. London, 2000
  4. Tim Harris, ed. The Politics of the Excluded, 1500-1850. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

 

Rebellions and interpretations:

  1. GW Bernard, War, Taxation, and Rebellion in Early Tudor England. Henry VIII, Wolsey and the Amicable Grant of 1525. [On 1525]
  2. ML Bush, The Pilgrimage of Grace
  3.  ME James 'Obedience and dissent in Henrician England' Past and Present 48 (1970)
  4. RB Smith, Land and politics in the England of Henry VIII
  5. GR Elton 'Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace' in B Malament, ed, After the Reformation (also in his Studies vol 3)
  6. D MacCulloch 'Kett's rebellion in context' Past and Present 84 (1979)
  7. J Cornwall, 1549: the revolt of the peasantry
  8. D Loades, Two Tudor conspiracies
  9. P Clark, English provincial society, chapter 3, [offers a more 'religious' interpretation]
  10. ME James, 'The concept of order and the Northern Rising of 1569' Past and Present, 60 (1973)
  11. WT MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime

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