List of Plates viiList of Maps ixPreface to the Third Edition xiPreface to the Second Edition xvPreface to the First Edition xviiAcknowledgments xxiConventions and Abbreviations xxiiiIntroduction: England and its People, ca. 1485 11 Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485-1525 332 (Dis-)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525-1536 673 Reformations and Counter-Reformations, 1536-1558 954 The Elizabethan Settlement and Its Challenges, 1558-1585 1215 The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585-1603 1436 Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603 1637 The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642 2218 Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642-1660 2619 Restoration and Revolution, 1660-1689 29110 War and Politics, 1689-1714 331Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714 369Chapter 0 'Medieval Prologue: the Wars of the Roses and their Antecedents,1377-1845' Available online at www.wiley.com/go/bucholz/earlymodernenglandGlossary 411Select Bibliography 421Appendix: Genealogies 4371 The Yorkists and Lancastrians 4382 The Tudors and Stuarts 4393 The Stuarts and Hanoverians 440Index 441
Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago, USA. He is the author of several books on English history including The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture and, with Joseph Ward, London: A Social and Cultural History 1550-1750.Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He has authored articles and book chapters on feasting, preaching, politicking, and conspiring in early modern England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.They both have co-edited the companion sourcebook Sources and Debates in English History, 1485-1714.