The Sixteenth Century

1485-1603
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-820767-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This volume explores the transformation of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. England was an effectively governed monarchy, but its authority was not easily enforced beyond the more developed south-east and midlands and it was exerised indirectly in Wales and Ireland, while Scotland was an independent monarchy. In Europe, England was significant trading partner, but its language unknown. By the early seventeenth century, the London-based English government had extended its effective authority over the North and Wales, Ireland was subjugated and colonised, and the English and Scottish crowns united. The established churches of the British Isles had broken away from the Roman Catholic Europe and were now national, royal, and protestant. With the English Bible and Shakespeare, English had reached the maturity of a potential world language, while the British peoples, now protestant, stood poised on the edge of global expansion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collinson, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Economy and society

- The limits of power: the English crown and the British Isles

- The Change of Religion

- Monarchy and Counsel: Models of the State

- The Renaissance in Britain

- Britain, Europe, and the world

- Conclusion

- Further Reading

- Chronology

- Glossary

- Maps

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Collinson is Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. He prevously held chairs at the Universities of Sydney, Kent at Canterbury, and Sheffield. He is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is the author of numerous books and articles on sixteenth-century Britain, including 'The Elizabethan Puritan Movement' (OUP, 1990) and 'Elizabethan Essays' (1994).