Early Tudor government, 1485-1558

'Robust and stimulating.' - Times Higher Education Supplement This book sets the developments in the government of England under the early Tudors in the context of recent work on the fifteenth century and on continental Europe.

It approaches the subject less by charting the development of institutions, or characterizing the policies of individual monarchs and ministers, than by analysing themes in the activity of government over the period from the Yorkists to the mid-Tudors.

In so doing, it seeks to weigh continuities against change, and to assess the origins, nature and long-term significance of such change.