Description |
xxi, 303 pages : 5 maps ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: The Tudor borderlands in context -- 1. The origins of the early-Tudor problem -- 2. Early-Tudor policy and perceptions -- 3. The estates and connexion of Lord Dacre of the North -- 4. The estates and connexion of the earl of Kildare -- 5. The Dacre ascendancy in the far north -- 6. The origins of the crisis -- 7. Confrontation: the Irish campaign of 1534-1535 and its consequences -- 8. Submission and survival: Dacre fortunes in Henry VIII's later years -- Conclusion: Tudor government and the transformation of the Tudor state |
Summary |
Ellis analyses the 1534 crisis in crown - magnate relations, reassesses the resulting policy of centralization and uniformity, and identifies the central role of these developments in establishing a British pattern of state formation |
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This controversial book offers a novel perspective on Tudor government and British state formation. It argues that traditional studies focusing on lowland England as 'the normal context of government' exaggerate the regime's successes by marginalizing the borderlands. Frontiers were normal in early-modern Europe, however, and central to the problem of state formation. Steve Ellis argues that England's peripheries were more extensive than the core and provide the real yardstick by which the effectiveness of government can be measured. He demonstrates their importance by means of a detailed comparative study of two marches - Cumbria and Ireland - and their ruling magnates. He exposes the flaws in early Tudor policy - characterized by long periods of neglect, interspersed with sporadic attempts to adapt, at minimal cost, a centralized administrative system geared to lowland England for the government of outlying regions which had very different social structures |
Analysis |
Great Britain History, 1485-1603 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Tudor, House of.
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Nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056883
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LC no. |
94049540 |
ISBN |
0198201338 |
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