Hurstfield, Joel. Freedom, corruption and government in Elizabethan England

Folger bibliographic ID: 8620
Folger call number: DA356 .H98
Folger holdings ID: 8861

General notes

Includes bibliographical references

Contents

Was there a Tudor despotism after all?--The paradox of liberty in Shakespeare's England.--Church and state, 1558-1612.--The succession struggle in late Elizabethan England.--Political corruption in modern England: the historian's problem.--Corruption and reform under Edward VI and Mary: the example of wardship.--The political morality of early Stuart statesmen.--Tradition and change in the English Renaissance.--County government: Wiltshire c. 1530-c. 1660.--Office-holding and government mainly in England and France.--A retrospect: Gunpowder Plot and the politics of dissent

Great Britain Civil rights Political corruption

author: Hurstfield, Joel