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Praise for the first edition:
"At last students and teachers of early modern England have a sourcebook of their own that is everything they could have asked for. The sources, both old favorites and some refreshing surprises, are enhanced by thought-provoking introductions and reference to the latest scholarship. Most happily, they are printed in substantially long excerpts rather than the unsatisfying snippets available elsewhere." Michael B. Young, Illinois Wesleyan University
"The sources give insight into the lives of individuals as well as politics, religion, and culture. They are also thoughtfully selected and open to a multiplicity of interpretations. Well-chosen illustrations add significantly to the value of the book." Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Table of Contents
List of Documents vii
List of Plates xiv
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xviii
Abbreviations xix
1 Social Order and Tensions in Tudor England 1
Great Chain of Being 2
Social Order, Social Change, and the State 9
Foreigners View English Society 16
Historians’ Debates 19
Additional Source Collections 21
2 Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge 22
Edward IV, Richard III, and the Reassertion of Royal Power 24
Claiming the Throne: Richard III, Henry VIII, and the Pretenders 28
Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey 37
Tudor Revolutions in England, Wales, and Ireland? 41
Historians’ Debates 46
Additional Source Collections 48
3 Religious Reformations 49
The Old Church Remembered, Criticized, and Defended 50
Henry VIII’s Great Matter 55
The New Church Established 57
Conservative Reaction 62
Protestant vs. Catholic under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I 65
Historians’ Debates 74
Additional Source Collections 77
4 Elizabethan Worlds 78
Imperial Ambitions; Geopolitical Realities 78
Between Jesuits and Puritans 90
Elizabethan Performances 96
Historians’ Debates 105
Additional Source Collections 108
5 Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women 109
Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions 109
Good Wife, Bad Wife, Poor Wife, Witch 119
Poor Laws and the Reform of Popular Culture 127
Historians’ Debates 133
Additional Source Collections 136
6 Early Stuart Church and State 137
Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism 137
Puritans and Anti-Puritans 142
The Crisis of Parliaments 148
The Personal Rule 158
The Constitution Reformed or Deformed? 160
Historians’ Debates 167
Additional Source Collections 170
7 Civil War and Revolution 171
War and Reaction in the Three British Kingdoms 171
Constitutional Experiments, Regicide, and Reconfiguration 184
Radicals, Sectaries, and Revolving New Notions 193
Historians’ Debates 203
Additional Source Collections 206
8 Religion, Restoration, and Revolution 208
Dissenters, Catholics, and the Church of England 208
Whig vs. Tory 219
James II, William of Orange, and the Revolution of 1688–9 229
Historians’ Debates 237
Additional Source Collections 240
9 Later Stuart Politics, Thought, and Society 241
Revolution Settlements Debated 241
The Rage of Party 259
Landed Interest versus Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Ideas 266
Historians’ Debates 278
Additional Source Collections 280
Bibliography of Online Document Archives 282
Index 285
