The Early Tudors: Henry VII. Henry VIII. (Epochs of Modern History)

The Early Tudors Henry VII. Henry VIII. by The Rev. C. E. Moberly, M.A. was published in 1889 in London. This volume also contains 4 maps that are included at the end of the book. (269 pages)

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Contents:

Chapter I. The Growth Of Despotism In Europe During The Fifteenth Century ----- Chapter II. Henry Of Richmond. Bosworth Field. The Coronation. The Sweating Sickness, 1485, 1486 ----- Chapter III. Lambert Simnel. The Bretagne War. 1486-1492 ----- Chapter IV. Warbeck. Blackheath Field, 1492 - 1496 ----- Chapter V. Alliances Against France. Death Of Henry. 1497 - 1509 ----- Chapter VI. Legislation For Ireland. English Laws Of Henry VII. Foreign Trade. Maritime Discovery. 1485 - 1509 ----- Chapter VII. The Revival Of Classical Learning. 1390 - 1509 ----- Chapter VIII. The Peaceful Beginnings Of The New Reign. 1509 - 1511 ----- Chapter IX. The War Of Tournay. 1511 - 1514 ----- Chapter X. Domestic Affairs After The Peace With France. 1515 - 1518 ----- Chapter XI. The War Of Pavia. 1515 - 1527 ----- Chapter XII. The Early Reformation Abroad. The Divorce. Fall Of Wolsey. 1521 - 1530 ----- Chapter XIII. More And Fisher. 1531 – 1535 ----- Chapter XIV. The Dissolution Of The Monasteries. The Pilgrimage Of Grace. 1535 - 1538 ----- Chapter XV. The Yorkist Conspiracy. Anne Of Cleves. The Six Articles. The Fall Of Cromwell. 1538 – 1539 ----- Chapter XVI Henry’s Last French War. Close And Results Of The Reign. 1541.

Maps:

England and Wales, 1485-1547 ----- Campaign of Terouenne ----- Battle of Flodden Field ----- Cleves, Mark, Berg, Juliers

Preface:

.....As the plan of works in this Series does not allow of systematic references at the foot of the pages to larger and more detailed histories of the period, it may be well to mention here a few of the books which are likely to be most useful to those who wish to study it more fully. So far as these are complete histories, they must be chiefly modern, as the age was not fertile in contemporary narratives. Thus for Richard III.'s time Mr. Gairdner's excellent Life of that king should be studied, with its appendix on Warbeck; for Henry VII. Lord Bacon's Life, which has been carefully edited for the Cambridge University Press by Mr. Lumby. The Stanhope Essay by Mr. Williamson on the 'Foreign Commerce of England under the Tudors' gives ample details on this subject in very small compass; and the religious movement from 1485 to 1509 is described to perfection in Mr. Seebohm's delightful work on Colet, Erasmus, and More, and in Cooper's Life of the Lady Margaret.
.....For Henry VIII.'s reign much has been done of late years, above all by Mr. Brewer in his celebrated Prefaces to the papers of the reign in the Rolls Series (which have been published separately in two volumes), illustrating the years from 1509 to 1529, The history of the early Reformation is given with much detail and liveliness in Dean Hook's Lives of Archbishops Morton, Warham, and Cranmer; the Dissolution of the Monasteries and other measures of the reign have been examined with great care in Dixon's 'History of the Church of England,' a work of unusual merit. The subject of religion is admirably treated as regards Germany in Ranke's 'History of the Reformation,' which Miss Austen has translated.
.....It is hardly necessary to refer to Mr. Froude's history of Henry VIII., for no one can hope to know the period without reading it diligently. True it is that this industrious and most eloquent writer may probably fail in inspiring readers with his own admiration for Henry's actions, which indeed he has of late shown some disposition to reconsider. But, qualify his verdict as we will, we shall still find abundant profit as well as pleasure in reading his great work, especially if we check and perhaps correct his view of some great events by comparing with it Mr. Friedmann's recently published Life of Anne Boleyn, which is full of important information and shows the hand of a master throughout. For Scottish affairs Mr. Burton's 'History of Scotland' is all that can be desired.
.....Lastly, it may be permitted to refer to some very interesting papers on Henry VII. and Henry VIII. contained in Bishop Stubbs's recently published volume of Oxford Lectures. No use has been made of these in the present work, which was in type before they appeared; its writer ventures to remark that, where he himself has praised Henry VII., he often finds with great pleasure that the Bishop does the same. It is somewhat disquieting to observe that the Lectures attribute to Henry VIII. far more innate power and ruling faculty than has been here traced in his administration, civil, military, and religious.