J.P.Sommerville

 

VII: 1547-1558 THE MID-TUDOR YEARS

Q: '"Continuity" is scarcely more helpful than "crisis" in characterising the years 1547-58'. Discuss.

 

Approaches

Continuity

  1. Jennifer Loach & Robert Tittler, The Mid-Tudor polity
  2. David Starkey Review of 1. in History 66 (1981)
  3. Jennifer Loach, Edward VI. Yale English Monarchs. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999

Crisis

  1. WRD Jones, The mid-Tudor crisis, 1539-1563
  2. GR Elton, Reform and Reformation
  3. Conrad Russell, Crisis of parliaments pp. 123-44

 

Narrative

  1. ML Bush, The government policy of protector Somerset
  2. D Hoak, The king's council in the reign of Edward VI
  3. D Loades, The reign of Mary Tudor
  4. Robert Tittler, The Reign of Mary I (2nd Edition) Longman 1991
  5. Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI, CUP 2002
     

 

Special areas:

A. The economy

  1. WG Hoskins, The age of plunder
  2.  FJ Fisher 'Commercial trends and policies in sixteenth-century England' Economic History Review 10 (1940)
  3. JD Gould, The great debasement

 

B. Rebellion

see  list VI.

 

C. Administration and finance

  1. GR Elton, The Tudor revolution in government, pp 223-258
  2. J Alsop, 'The revenue commission of 1552' Historical Journal 22 (1979)
  3. D.M.Loades, John Dudley: Duke of Northumberland, 1504-1553 OUP 1996

and see Hoak (no.8 above)

 

D. Succession

  1. N Levine, Tudor dynastic problems, 1460-1571

 

E. Religion

  1. D Loades, The Oxford martyrs
  2. F Heal, Of prelates and princes
  3.  R Podgson, 'Reginald Pole and the priorities of government in Mary Tudor's church' Historical Journal, 18(1975)
  4. David Loades, The reign of Mary Tudor: politics, government and religion in England 1553-58

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