Tudor frontiers and noble power : the making of the British state /
This work examines the Tudor government and the formation of the British state from the perspective of the borderlands which made up over half of English territory. It proposes that it was the frontiers, not lowland England, which provided the real test of Tudor statesmanship.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
1995.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Tudor borderlands in context
- The origins of the early-Tudor problem
- Early-Tudor policy and perceptions
- The estates and connexion of Lord Dacre of the North
- The estates and connexion of the earl of Kildare
- The Dacre ascendancy in the far north
- The origins of the crisis
- Confrontation: the Irish campaign of 1534-1535 and its consequences
- Submission and survival: Dacre fortunes in Henry VIII's later years
- Conclusion: Tudor government and the transformation of the Tudor state.