The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s

ISBN-13: 9780199259069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 504 str.

R. W. Hoyle; R. W. Hoyle

Opis

This is the first full account of the Pilgrimage of Grace since 1915. In the autumn and winter of 1536, Henry VIII faced risings first in Lincolnshire, then throughout northern England. These rebellions posed the greatest threat of any encountered by a Tudor monarch. The Pilgrimage of Grace has traditionally been assumed to have been a spontaneous protest against the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but R. W. Hoyle's lively and intriguing study reveals the full story.

Recenzje

A meticulous evaluation... going behind the printed Calendar to that mine of information which is the State papers themselves, and an unrivalled knowledge of the grass-roots politics of Northern England. There will never be a definitive history of the Pilgrimage of Grace, but this is as close to it as we may hope to get.