1st Edition

English Historical Documents 1558–1603

Edited By Ian W. Archer, F. Douglas Price Copyright 2011
1392 Pages
by Routledge

1392 Pages
by Routledge

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Preface  Acknowledgments  1.1 Accession  1.2 Religious Settlement  1.3 Economic Settlement  1.4 Scotland  1.5 Marriage and Succession  1.6 Enforcing the Settlement  1.7 Beginnings of Puritanism  1.8 Crisis of 1568-72  2.1 Monarchy and the Court  2.2 Projecting Power  2.3 Parliament  2.4 Crown Finances  2.5 Law  2.6 Local Government  2.7 Militia  3.1 Social Structure  3.2 Family and Household  3.3 Domestic Economy  3.4 Overseas Trade and Exploration  3.5 Cultural Life  3.6 Poverty and Welfare  3.7 Crime  3.8 London  4.1 State of the Church  4.2 Catholicism  4.3 Puritan Challenge  4.4. Religious Radicals  4.5 Anjou  4.6 Ireland  4.7 The Problem with Mary  4.8 The Armada Crisis  5.1 Politics in the 1590s  5.2 The Burdens of War  5.3 Poverty and Crime  5.4 Catholics Divided  5.5 Puritanism Contained  5.6 The Irish Denoument  5.7 Succession  5.8 The End of the Regime  Bibliography Primary   Bibliography Secondary 

 

Biography

Ian W. Archer is Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and General Editor of the Royal Historical Society’s Bibliography.

F. Douglas Price was a distinguished historian of Elizabethan England and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford.