England Under the Tudors (Classic Reprint)

I N England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristic of the last twenty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. The standard histories of the last generation need to be revised, or even to be put aside as obsolete, in the light of the new information that is coming in so rapidly and in such vast bulk. But the students and researchers of to-day have shown little enthusiasm as yet for the task of rewTiting history on a large scale. We see issuing from the press hundreds of monographs, biographies, editions of old texts, selections from correspondence, or collections of statistics, Inediaeval and modern. But the writers who (like the late Bishop Stubbs or Professor Samuel Gardiner) undertake to tell over again the history of a long period, with the aid of all the newly discovered material, are few indeed. I t is comparatively easy to write a mon

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; THE TUDOR PERIOD, I48S-I603; An era of Revolutions-The Intellectual Movement-The Reformation and; Counter-Reformation-The N ew World-The Constitution-Nobility,; Clergy, and Gentry-International Relations; CHAPTER I; PAGi; HENRY VII (i), 148S-1492-THE NEW DYNASTY 9; 1485 Henry's Title to the Crown-Measures to strengthen the Title-; 1486 Marriage-The King and his Advisers-Henry's enemies-1487; Lambert Simnel-The State of Europe-France and BrittanY-1488; Henry intervenes cautiously-England and Spain-1489 Preparations; for war with France-Spanish treaty of Medina del Campo-The; Allies inert-149° Object of Henry's Foreign PolicY-1491 Apparent; Defeat-1492 Henry's bellicose Attitude-Treaty of Etaples; CHAPTER II; HENRY VII (ii),1492-1499-PERKIN WARBECK 21; Ireland; 1485-1487-1492 The Earl of Kildare-1491 Perkin Warbeck's; Appearance-Riddle of his imposture-1492-S Perkin and Margaret; of Burgundy-Diplomatic Intrigues-Ire