War, Privilege and the Norman Connection, 1370-1435
Military Defeat and Civil Conflict, 1435-1485
Centralisation and its Limits under Henry VII and Henry VIII,
1485-1547
Political and Religious Strife, 1547-1569
War and the Development of Autonomy, 1570-1604
The Challenge of Uniformity? 1605-1640
Conclusion
Tim Thornton is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of and a Professor of History at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author, amongst other works, of Cheshire and the Tudor State, 1480-1560 (2000), Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (2006) and The Channel Islands, 1370-1640 (2012), all published by Boydell and Brewer.
Professor Thornton has discovered rare and unpublished archives,
some privately held, and drawn them together in a magisterial work.
This is a textbook and a sourcebook. It should be on every
university reading list.
*SPECULUM*
Tim Thornton offers here an important reassessment of the
government of the Channel Islands in the years from the
late-fourteenth-century decline of English fortunes in France to
the outbreak of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the 1640s.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
The author has provided a clear account of the history of the
Channel Islands [.] the author is to be congratulated for setting
out the complex web of events in a way accessible to all those with
an interest in the Islands and their affairs.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, December 2013*
Will be the foundation for future studies.
*SOUTHERN HISTORY*
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