Early Modern England 1485–1714

Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993) and, with Sir John Sainty, Officials of the Royal Household 1660-1837 (2 volumes, 1997-8). He has written articles on Queen Anne and the court. Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on provincial and metropolitan politicking in Stuart England and Wales. He is currently at work on a study of patrician/plebeian politics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London.

List of Plates. List of Maps. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgments. Conventions and Abbreviations. Introduction : England and its People, ca. 1485. 1. Establishing the Henrician Regime, 1485-1525. 2. (Dis-)Establishing the Henrician Church, 1525-1536. 3. Reformations and Counter-Reformations, 1536-1558. 4. The Elizabethan Settlement and its Challenges, 1558-1585. 5. The Elizabethan Triumph and Unsettlement, 1585-1603. 6. Merrie Olde England?, ca. 1603. 7. The Early Stuarts and the Three Kingdoms, 1603-1642. 8. Civil War, Revolution, and the Search for Stability, 1642-1660. 9. Restoration and Revolution, 1660-1689. 10. War and Politics, 1689-1714. Conclusion : Augustan Polity, Society, and Culture, ca. 1714. Notes. Glossary. Select Bibliography. Appendix : Genealogies. 1. The Yorkists and Lancastrians. 2. The Tudors and Stuarts. 3. The Stuarts and Hanoverians. Index.