"The age of Luther and the Emperor Charles V, of Calvin and Ignatius, of Copernicus and Erasmus, rich in achievement and furious destruction, is of its very nature controversial. This book sets out to tell the history of the Reformation and to explain it."...from the back cover

'REFORMATION EUROPE, 1517-99'

G.R. Elton

History

Fontana

In the year 1200, the English Government initiated regular series of record-archives; in 1640, the fall of Charles I's personal government led to the abolition of several central offices and their archives. These events, which both profoundly altered the state of the evidence for the historian, therefore set the limits of this book. For though those 450 years must be studied from a great variety of sources, to the historian they constitute above all the period for which he depends overwhelmingly on official records of all kinds. The core of this book, therefore, is an analysis and description of such materials - their origin, present state and usefulness. However, other materials are not ignored, from the chronicles which provide the main outline of the history that can be known, through the records of the law, private letters (almost non-existent before 1450, suddenly plentiful after 1550) and estate documents, to less familiar historical sources like books, buildings and landscape, and the contribution of the archaeologist.

ENGLAND, 1200-1640 (SOURCES OF HISTORY S.)

Europe

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Indepth look at the Tudor ruling family throughout its period in England.

England Under the Tudors

Routledge

Modern Historians on British History, 1485-1945 (University Paperbacks)

Methuen young books

First published in 1955 and never out of print, this wonderfully written text by one of the great historians of the twentieth century has guided generations of students through the turbulent history of Tudor England. Now in its third edition, England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that saw some monumental changes in religion, monarchy, government and the arts. Elton's classic and highly readable introduction to the Tudor period offers an essential source of information from the start of Henry VII's reign to the death of Elizabeth I.

METHUEN CO.

This book is a study of change in the methods and principles of English government in the sixteenth century, from the 'household' methods of the Middle Ages to the bureaucratic organization of a national monarchy. The most important decade, 1530-40, is given most concentrated attention, but the earlier and later phases are also touched upon. The study deals with the organs of central government: the financial machinery and the new courts; seals and secretariats and the rise of the secretary of state; the council and the making of the privy council; the royal household and its retirement from national government. When this neglected aspect of its history is studied, the sixteenth century is once again seen as an age of revolution. It becomes clear that it was Thomas Cromwell who was the principal figure in the government of the 1530's, and both his mind and his real intentions are shown in a fresh light.

The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII

Cambridge University Press

Scholarship has established the prevalence of a reformist ideal of 'the Commonwealth' in early Tudor England, but concentration on scholars and writings has led to a neglect of affairs and politics. This study attempts to discover the fate of reforming programmes when efforts were made to translate them into reality, and it uses the administration of Thomas Cromwell as a test-case. Cromwell, it is well known, favoured advanced thinkers and promoted much parliamentary legislation; how far can we see him as a proponent of 'commonwealth' politics and what success did we have? A close look establishes him as a man who without formal training practised the techniques of the learned and behaved as an intellectual. He also emerges as an evangelical in religion, a believer in the via media between extremes on which the Church of England was to erect its particular form of religion. As the only experienced parliamentarian in the group, he also knew how to handle the instrument of reform. The study discusses this work in two main respects: reforms in the economy and reform of the law.

Reform & Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal (Wiles Lectures)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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'REFORMATION EUROPE, 1517-99'

ENGLAND, 1200-1640 (SOURCES OF HISTORY S.)

England Under the Tudors

Modern Historians on British History, 1485-1945 (University Paperbacks)

England Under the Tudors

The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII

Reform & Renewal: Thomas Cromwell and the Common Weal (Wiles Lectures)