A Study of the Postpardon Revolts of December 1536 to March 1537 and Their Effect . Tudor rebellions have conventionally been analyzed by political historians from the perspective of central government or court conspiracy, or else merely narrated by antiquarians or amateurs fascinated by the history and archaeology of their localities.
Significant exceptions exist.
Work by C. S. L. Davies on the Pilgrimage of Grace, Diarmaid MacCulloch on Kett's Rebellion, and John Walter on the Oxfordshire Rising of 1596 began a process whereby historians sympathetic to the Annales investigated cultural and socioeconomic norms and the paradigmatic foundations of dissent. The crux is the Pilgrimage of Grace. In the present book, he and coauthor David Bownes examine the intricate political events between early December 1536, when the rebels stood on the verge of victory, to their final defeat in March 1537. This agenda is apposite. The cluster of revolts known as the Pilgrimage was the largest and most threatening rebellion faced by the Tudors.