The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0378 Friday, 15 June 2007
[1] From: Paul Budra <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 12:29:31 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
[2] From: Nicole M. Coonradt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 21:21:28 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
[3] From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 15:09:51 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
[4] From: Arthur Lindley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 21:15:59 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
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From: Paul Budra <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 12:29:31 -0700
Subject: 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
John Guy's Tudor England might do the trick.
Paul Budra
Simon Fraser University
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From: Nicole M. Coonradt <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 21:21:28 +0000
Subject: 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
Tom, your man is John Lingard (Feb. 5, 1771- July 17, 1851) and his
_History of England_ (in ten volumes) is an excellent tool for anyone
seeking to know more about the history of England. He is the
acknowledged father or pioneer of source criticism in the history of
historiography and his collection was, even up until the early 1920s,
the complete source at Oxford. According to Dennis Taylor, he has been
"astonishingly neglected"-- I concur with this sentiment. While Lingard
has, at times, been pooh-pooh for having been Catholic, no one to date
has much bettered his work. It is delightfully written and user
friendly (dates and notes as guide). Also see Edwin Jones' work *on*
Lingard, _The English Nation: The Great Myth_. I also recommend the
colorful summary with purple-prose commentary by Protestant writer
William Cobbett (March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835), _The Protestant
Reformation in England_ (he was jailed for his views and later fled
England for America), though he is not considered an *historian*. Clare
Asquith recently described Cobbett to me as, "A wild ride!"
Enjoy~
NMC
University of Denver
Denver, CO USA
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From: Frank Whigham <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 15:09:51 -0500
Subject: 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
You might try:
* Guy, John. Tudor England. Main emphasis on political history.
* Wrightson, Keith. English Society, 1580-1680. Mainly social history;
terrifically readable.
* Stone, Lawrence. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641. Crucial for
study of the elite.
* For the 1550s: any of D. M. Loades's many fine books
* Elton, G. R. Reform and Reformation, 1509-1558. On Henry VIII and the 50s.
~FW
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From: Arthur Lindley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 11 Jun 2007 21:15:59 +0000
Subject: 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
Comment: Re: SHK 18.0367 Tudor/Stuart History Texts?
It won't help with the Stuarts, but Susan Brigden, *New Worlds, Lost
Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603* (Penguin, 2000) is good on
its period.
Arthur Lindley
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