Product Description: In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy...read more

Product Description: Brought together as a tribute to the distinguished Tudor historian C.S.L. Davies, the essays in this collection address key themes in the current historiography of the Tudor period. These include the nature, causes and consequences of change in English government, society and religion, the relationship of centre, localities and peripheral areas in the Tudor state, the regulation of belief and conduct, and the dynamics of England's relations with her neighbours...read more

Product Description: 'Robust and stimulating.' - Times Higher Education Supplement This book sets the developments in the government of England under the early Tudors in the context of recent work on the fifteenth century and on continental Europe. It approaches the subject less by charting the development of institutions, or characterizing the policies of individual monarchs and ministers, than by analysing themes in the activity of government over the period from the Yorkists to the mid-Tudors...read more

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Product Description: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was one of Henry VIII's most exalted subjects. Throughout his career, he remained one of the king's closest friends, and was a courtier, diplomat and military leader of great influence. Yet Brandon's life was by no means free from misadventure...read more