Table of Contents

List of Plates vii

List of Maps ix

Preface to the Third Edition xi

Preface to the Second Edition xv

Preface to the First Edition xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

Conventions and Abbreviations xxiii

Introduction: England and its People, ca. 1485 1

1 Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485–1525 33

2 (Dis‐)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525–1536 67

3 Reformations and Counter‐Reformations, 1536–1558 95

4 The Elizabethan Settlement and Its Challenges, 1558–1585 121

5 The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585–1603 143

6 Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603 163

7 The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603–1642 221

8 Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642–1660 261

9 Restoration and Revolution, 1660–1689 291

10 War and Politics, 1689–1714 331

Conclusion: Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714 369

Chapter 0 ‘Medieval Prologue: the Wars of the Roses and their Antecedents,1377–1845’ Available online at www.wiley.com/go/bucholz/earlymodernengland

Glossary 411

Select Bibliography 421

Appendix: Genealogies 437

1 The Yorkists and Lancastrians 438

2 The Tudors and Stuarts 439

3 The Stuarts and Hanoverians 440

Index 441

About the Author

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.