Society, Politics, and Culture: Studies in Early Modern England

Abstract

Preface Introduction 1. Ritual, drama and social body in the late madieval English town 2. A Tudor magnate and the Tudor state: Henry, fifth Earl of Northumberland 3. Change and continuity in the Tudor north: Thomas, first Lord Wharton 4. The first Earl of Cumberland (1493-1542) and the decline of northern feudalism 5. Two Tudor funerals 6. Obedience and dissent in Henrician England: the Lincolnshire rebellion, 1536 7. The concept of order and the Northern Rising, 1569 8. English politics and the concept of honour, 1485-1642 9. At a crossroads of the political culture: the Essex revolt, 1601 Index.