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Provides a full, detailed picture of the life of an aristocratic family in early modern England.

Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The Debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation of the mid-sixteenth-century with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. This book explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation relevant to ...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This engaging, exciting book looks at the world of the strong, enterprising, forceful and occasionally manipulative women in early modern Britain and America.Contests the accepted view that these were male-dominated patriarchal societies, in which women played a subordinate and generally private role. Challenges these orthodoxies and shows that were important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. No ot...

While historians have written with ease about the state and the church, the family has so far defied historical analysis. As the primary cell of human social organisation, upon which both state and church depend, it is of crucial importance. In this concise, informative and stimulating book, Rosemary O'Day seeks to explain the difficulties facing the historian of the family and to suggest strategies for their solution. She compares families an...

This new Companion is an invaluable guide to one of the most colourful periods in history. Covering everything from the Reformation, controversies over the succession and the prayer book to literature, the family and education, this highly accessible reference tool it includes a wealth of chronologies, biographies, statistics, and maps, as well as a glossary and a guide to the key works in the field.

New edition, combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area -- .

This new Companion is an invaluable guide to one of the most colourful periods in history. Covering everything from the Reformation, controversies over the succession and the prayer book to literature, the family and education, this highly accessible reference tool contains commentary on the key events in the reigns of the five Tudor monarchs from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. Opening with a general introduction, it includes a wealth of chronologi...