Table of Contents

1: The Risings of 1536-7: Retrospect and Prospect
2: A Northern Panorama
3: 1536: The Year of the Three Queens
4: Lincolnshire
5: The Dynamics of the Lincolnshire Rising
6: Fever Days: The Reaction to Lincolnshire
7: The Rising in the East Riding
8: The 'Captain Poverty' Revolts
9: Misunderstanding Darcy
10: The Confrontation at Doncaster
11: The Benignity of the Prince
12: Winding up the Pilgrimage
13: The King's Love for the North
14: The Return of the Duke of Norfolk
15: The Rebellions as Commons' Revolts
Epilogue: 'to knit up this tragedy'
Select Documents
Bibliography of Printed Sources
Index

Reviews

A number of small gems and sharp insights pervade the text ... Hoyle has an impressive command of the sources and of northern society ... a treat among academic monographs. This study has been long anticipated by historians of early modern protest, Henrician politics, and the early reformation, and it handsomely repays the wait. Canadian Journal of History 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. Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books