Companion to Tudor Britain

Robert Tittler is Professor of History at Concordia University. His recent publications include The Reformation and the Towns in England: Politics and Political Culture c. 1540–1640 (1998) and Townspeople and Nation: English Urban Experiences, 1540–1640 (2001). He is co-founder and Chair of the Montreal British History Seminar and Chair of the Executive Board of Records of Early English Drama. Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His recent publications include The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell, 1992) and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (Blackwell, 2002).

• List of Plates x List of Maps xiNotes on Contributors xiiiPreface and Acknowledgements xviiIntroduction 1Robert Tittler and Norman JonesPart I Government and Politics.Introduction 91 The Establishment of the Tudor Dynasty 13David Grummitt2 The Rise of the Tudor State 29Joseph S. Block3 Elizabethan Government and Politics 44David Dean4 The Court 61Retha Warnicke5 Law 77DeLloyd J. Guth6 County Government in England 98Steve Hindle7 Town and City Government 116Catherine F. Patterson8 Centre and Periphery in the Tudor State 133Steven G. Ellis9 Politics and Government of Scotland 151Jenny Wormald10 Anglo-Scottish Relations: Security and Succession 167Jane E. A. Dawson11 Britain and the Wider World 182David PotterPart II Belief.Introduction 20312 Traditional Religion 207Ben R. McRee13 The Dissolutions and their Aftermath 221Peter Cunich14 Religious Settlements 238Norman Jones15 Catholics and Recusants 254William Sheils16 The Protestant Opposition to Elizabethan Religious Reform 271Peter Iver Kaufman17 The Scottish Reformation 289Michael GrahamPart III People and Groups.Introduction 30918 Rural Economy and Society 311R. W. Hoyle19 The Urban Economy 330Alan Dyer20 Metropolitan London 347Joseph P. Ward21 Society and Social Relations in British Provincial Towns 363Robert Tittler22 Women in the British Isles in the Sixteenth Century 381Anne LaurencePart IV Culture.Introduction 40323 Senses of the Past in Tudor Britain 407Daniel Woolf24 Tudor Drama, Theatre and Society 430Alexandra F. Johnston25 Portraiture, Politics and Society 448Robert Tittler26 Architecture, Politics and Society 470Malcolm Airs27 Music, Politics and Society 492John Milsom28 Science and Technology 509Lesley B. CormackBibliography 526Index 563