The earlier Tudors, 1485-1558.
Series: Oxford history of England
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 699
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
Description: Examines the birth of a nation-state from the death throes of the Middle Ages in North-Wes Europe. John D. makes distinctive the establishment of a stable monarchy by the very competent henry VII, examines the means employed by him, and considers how far his monarchy can be described as "new." He also discusses the machinery by which the royal power was exercised and traces the effect of the concentration of lay accleciastical authority in the person of Wolsey, whose soaring ambition helped make possible the Caesaro-papalism of henry VIII.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [609]-644.