Table of Contents

ChronologyAbbreviations Who's WhoGlossaryMapsList of platesPART ONE: ANALYSIS
1 The Shape of Tudor Society
2 Ideas of Submission, Ideas of Justice
3 Taxation and Rebellion
The Yorkshire Rebellion 1489
The Cornish Rebellion 1497
Resistance to taxation 1513-1525
4 The Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace
The Lincolnshire Rising
The Pilgrimage: October-December 1536
The causes of the Rebellion
Henry VIII and the North 1537-1547
5 The Western Rebellion
Riot and rebellion in the West 1547-1549
The causes of the RebellionRobert Kett and the "Rebellions of Commonwealth"
Prelude to Rebellion, 1548The Commotions May-August 1549
The causes of the Commotions7 Wyatt's Rebellion
Conspiracy and rebellion, November 1553-February 1554
The Rebellion, Religion and the Spanish marriage
8 The Northern Rebellion
Conspiracy and rebellion 1569-1570
The causes of the Rebellion
9 Epilogue
10 Rebellion and Tudor Government
PART TWO: DOCUMENTS
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Widely considered a classic, this book offers an invaluable chronological account and analysis of the rebellions which affected the Kingdom of England during the reign of the Tudors.

About the Author

Anthony Fletcher was Professor of History, University of Essex. Diarmaid MacCulloch is one of the leading historians of Tudor England and is Professor of Church History in the Theology Faculty at the University of Oxford. He has written widely in the past, including the books 'Thomas Cranmer: A Life' (Yale University Press) and 'Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation' (Penguin). He is currently writing a major survey of the European Reformation for Penguin.