Tudor Rebellions

Diarmaid MacCulloch was Professor of the History of the Church in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. His previous publications include Reformation: Europe’s House Divided, 1490–1700 (2003), A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009) and Thomas Cromwell: A Life (2018).Anthony Fletcher was Professor of History, University of Essex.

'Tudor Rebellions is one of the most successful undergraduate textbooks of the past half century. Elegantly written, meticulously arranged and crammed full of vivid detail, it has introduced thousands of students to some of the most fascinating and controversial episodes in English history. Now, in this splendid new edition, Diarmaid MacCulloch brings the story fully up-to-date, incorporating the findings of the very latest historical research and surveying the field with his customary gimlet eye.'Mark Stoyle, University of Southampton, UK 'Tudor Rebellions has been required reading for my students for over thirty years. It provides superb and concise accounts of the rebellions and deftly sets them in their context.'J. Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 'Tudor Rebellions is an incomparable teaching tool. It contains lucid narratives of complicated events along with sophisticated synthetic and analytic essays that provide contexts for the meticulously chosen primary sources. In sum, the book has everything needed to give students a chance to "do" real historical work.'Freddy C. Dominguez, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA

• List of illustrations; Preface to the seventh edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Who’s who; Part I The background: Chapter 1 The shape of Tudor society; Chapter 2 Ideas of submission, ideas of justice; Part II Descriptive analysis: Chapter 3 The first Tudors: from rebels to rulers; Chapter 4 Rebellions in the era of Thomas Cromwell; Chapter 5 The Western Rebellion; Chapter 6 Robert Kett and the ‘rebellions of Commonwealth’; Chapter 7 Wyatt’s Rebellion; Chapter 8 The Northern Rebellion; Chapter 9 Epilogue Part III Assessment: Chapter 10 Rebellion and Tudor government; Part IV Documents: Document 1 The Duke of Norfolk to Wolsey, 1525; Document 2 The examination of Nicholas Leche, 1536; Document 3 The Lincoln Articles, 1536; Document 4 The Oath of the Honourable Men, 1536; Document 5 Robert Aske to the lords at Pontefract, 1536; Document 6 The Pilgrims’ Ballad, 1536; Document 7 The commons of Westmorland to Lord Darcy, 1536; Document 8 Advice to the Pilgrims at Pontefract, 1536; Document 9 The Pontefract Articles, 1536; Document 10 Richard Morison, A Remedy for Sedition, 1536; Document 11 The examination of Robert Aske, 1537; Document 12 Petition of Suffolk bondmen on the former Howard Manors of Kelsale, Framlingham, Peasenhall and Earl Soham to Protector Somerset, 1547–48; Document 13 The demands of the western rebels, 1549; Document 14 A Copy of a Letter, 1549; Document 15 Philip Nichols’s Answer to the Commoners of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1549; Document 16 The Council to the Justices of the Peace of Devon, 1549; Document 17 The Council to Lord Russell, 1549; Document 18 ‘Kett’s demands being in rebellion’, 1549; Document 19 Royal letter to those assembled in Norfolk, 1549; Document 20 Nicholas Sotherton, ‘The Commoyson in Norfolk’, 1549; Document 21 William Paget to Protector Somerset, 1549; Document 22 Sir Thomas Wyatt’s scheme for a local militia, 1549; Document 23 The Tower chronicle, 1554; Document 24 The proclamation of the earls, 1569; Document 25 Sir Ralph Sadler to Sir William Cecil, 1569; Document 26 The examination of the Earl of Northumberland, 1572; Guide to further reading; Index