The Tudors For Dummies E-Book

David Loades

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 568

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

This entertaining guide covers the period from 1485 to 1603, exploring the life and times of everyday people (from famine and the flu epidemic, to education, witchcraft and William Shakespeare) as well as the intrigues and scandals at court. Strap yourself in and get ready for a rollercoaster ride through the romantic and political liaisons of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - and that's not all! Information on surviving Tudor buildings, such as Hampton Court, adds a contemporary twist for readers wanting to bring history to life by visiting these historic sites.

The Tudors For Dummies includes:

Part I:  The Early Tudors
Chapter 1:  Getting to Know the Tudors
Chapter 2:  Surveying the Mess the Tudors Inherited     
Chapter 3:  Cosying Up With the First Tudor 

Part II:  Henry VIII
Chapter 4:  What was Henry like?
Chapter 5:  How Henry Ran his Kingdom
Chapter 6:  Divorced, Beheaded, Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: The Perils of Marrying Henry
Chapter 7:  Establishing a New Church: Henry and Religion

Part III: Edward VI, Mary and Philip, and Queen Mary
Chapter 8: Edward, the Child King
Chapter 9: Establishing Protestantism
Chapter 10: Northumberland, Lady Jane Grey and the Rise of Mary
Chapter 11: What Mary Did
Chapter 12: Weighing Up War and Disillusionment

Part IV: The First Elizabeth
Chapter 13: The Queen and her Team
Chapter 14: Breaking Dinner Party Rules: Discussing Religion and Politics
Chapter 15: Tackling Battles, Plots and Revolts
Chapter 16: Making War with Spain
Chapter 17: Understanding the Trouble in Ireland
Chapter 18: Passing on the Baton - Moving from Tudors to Stewarts

Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 19: Ten top Tudor Dates
Chapter 20: Ten Things the Tudors Did For Us
Chapter 21: Ten (Mostly) Surviving Tudor Buildings

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The Tudors For Dummies®

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organised

Part I: Encountering the Early Tudors

Part II: Handling Henry VIII

Part III: Remembering the Forgotten Tudors: Edward VI and Mary

Part IV: Ending with Elizabeth

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Encountering the Early Tudors

Chapter 1: Touring the Time of the Tudors

Looking at the Tudor Kingdom

Getting to Know the Family

Cruising the Royal Court

Mingling with the monarch

Breaking down the Court

Taking in Tudor Beliefs

Seeing How the Masses Lived

Following in father’s footsteps

Visiting the average village

Chartering towns

Paying the price

Trading at home and overseas

Building Dream Homes

Tutoring the Tudors: Education

Dying in Tudor England

Coping with Crime

Acting Up

Pleasing the crowd

Hum me a few bars: Tudor music

Strictly . . . Tudor style

Suits You, Sir

Chapter 2: Starting a Dynasty: Henry VII

Becoming King

Escaping the fallout of the Wars of the Roses

Hanging out in France

Securing the throne

Bucking for the throne

Angling for French support

Killing a king: Bosworth Field, 1485

Making a Fresh Start

Reckoning Henry

Reckoning England

Removing everything to do with Richard . . .

Handing out the honours

Positioning Parliament

Getting married

Ruling the Kingdom

Choosing the right men

Rousting the rebels: Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck

Pursuing peace and prosperity

Figuring out finances

Meeting Henry, the Human

Passing On at the Palace

Part II: Handling Henry VIII

Chapter 3: Being Bluff King Hal: Henry VIII

Getting to Know Prince Henry

Rocking round the cradle

Educating Henry: Tutors for Tudors

Moving up after Arthur’s death

Seeking Riches and Power

Taking on the French

Fencing with Francis I

Putting on a sideshow

Fighting the French (again!)

Making Politics Personal

Playing Away from Home

Playing away I – the other Boleyn girl

Playing away II – Bessie Blount

Leading an Active Life: Henry’s Hobbies

Jousting for boys and men

A-hunting he would go

I’ll see your three castles and raise you!

‘Who but my lady greensleeves?’

Did you hear the one about . . . ?

Growing Old (Not So) Gracefully: The Ageing Henry VIII

Climb up on my knee, sonny boy!

Unwieldy lies the body that wears the crown

The king is dead – long live the king

Chapter 4: Running the Kingdom, Henry’s Way

Managing Like a Monarch

Getting in your face

Who calls the shots?

Trying to go it alone

Meeting the King’s Advisers

Working with Wolsey

Carrying on with Cromwell

Telling Friend from Foe

Offending Henry

Meeting Henry’s enemies

Selling the Image

Painting power

Reflecting greatness in buildings

Punching above his weight

Chapter 5: Six Weddings and Two Funerals: Henry VIII’s Wives and Girlfriends

Courting Catherine of Aragon

Joining Team Tudor

Striking a match

Making babies, losing babies

Hitting the rocks

Hedging his Bess

Getting Heady with Anne Boleyn

Courting commotion

Getting his own way – to hell

Déjà vu

Falling out of love: A losing game

Punishing Anne: Off with her head!

Marrying Jane Seymour

Plain Jane

It’s a boy!

Taking leave: A dying shame

Tripping Up with Anne of Cleves

Making a big mistake

Dealing with the fallout

Getting another divorce

Lusting After Catherine Howard

Falling for a temptress

Pushing the limits

Reaching the end of the line

Slowing Down with Catherine Parr

Becoming available

Growing up: Choosing a sensible wife

Anything for a quiet life

Administering angel

Surviving Henry

Chapter 6: Building a New Church: Henry and Religion

Looking at Henry’s Beliefs

Shifting perspectives

Read all about it

Getting back on track: The Act of Six Articles

Putting religion into practice

Laying the foundation for the Royal Supremacy

Breaking with Rome

Petitioning the pope

Stepping up the action

Losing his patience

Divorcing the Catholic Church

Running a New Church

Taking the lead, bit by bit

Meeting the reformers

Dissolving the monasteries

Part III: Remembering the Forgotten Tudors: Edward VI and Mary

Chapter 7: Ruling from the Nursery: Edward VI and His Protectors

Setting Up a Protectorate

Crossing over from Henry

Taking control: The duke of Somerset

Battling brothers

Returning to the Auld Alliance: Scotland and France

Invading Scotland

Following up with forts

Allying against England

Pressing on in the north

Upping the tempo with France

Facing the Many-headed Monster: Social Unrest

Reacting to enclosure

Failing to defuse the situation

Kicking off with Kett

Ousting Somerset: Dudley Takes the Helm

Somerset versus Dudley

Changing the Chamber

Dictating with Dudley

Chapter 8: Encouraging Protestantism

Choosing Reform: Gently Does It

Sewing the seeds

Testing the water with new bishops

Moving on: Visitations and homilies

Dissolving the chantries by law

Trying to make things clear

Introducing the First Prayer Book

Changing content and language

Making enemies

Taking in the refugees

Continuing with Cranmer, hoping with Hooper

Getting Radical: Moving on with the Second Prayer Book

Picking apart the revised prayer book: Noxious Knox

Defining faith

Reforming zeal and dodgy dealings

Managing Mary

Plotting her escape

Coming to Court

Chapter 9: Changing with the Times: Edward, John, Jane and Mary

Taking Over: Dudley Rules OK

Getting personal

Getting promotion: Warwick on the way up

Sitting on the diplomatic fence

Facing down the French

Priming a Prince

Growing up

Going before his time

Making last-minute changes

Passing on in a terrible storm

Reigning for Nine Days: Jane Grey

Manoeuvring with Mary

Defending Jane?

Making Up With Mary

Checking out her team

Stepping into power

Marrying Mary

Chapter 10: Returning to the Old Faith: Mary I

Reviving the Old Faith

Making changes

Getting Parliament on side

Furthering the faith

Beginning the burning

Punishing the people

Looking on the good side

Planting Rebellion in Ireland

Securing Succession

Settling into the role of king

Expecting great things

Waiting for nothing

Drifting and Shifting: Philip Flexes His Muscles

Eyeing the crown

Double dealing with Dudley

Taking a turn for the worse

Squabbling with the pope

Trying to drag England into a war

Chapter 11: Ending the Dream: The Last of Mary

Going to War with France

Revolting with Stafford

Fighting the French – again!

Warring in winter: The fall of Calais

Following the fall

Feeling the fallout

Getting the jitters

Catching a Cold: The Flu Epidemic

Defending the Faith

Encountering Elizabeth

Locking up a rival

Searching for a suitable suitor

Naming Elizabeth as successor

Preparing for power

Claiming the Crown

Part IV: Ending with Elizabeth

Chapter 12: Dancing with Elizabeth

Clearing Out the Court

Purging the Privy Chamber

Choosing the Council

Marrying the Job

Getting a picture of Elizabeth’s sexuality

Looking for Mr Right

Wanting it all

Toying with the talent

Dallying with Dudley

Riding a Cock Horse

Sailing in New Directions

Slaving with Hawkins

Menacing from Spain

Chapter 13: Choosing the Middle Way between Protestants and Catholics

Settling the Faith

Gauging opinion

Pinning down the queen’s beliefs

Clashing over uniformity

Telling little white lies to Rome

Enforcing her will

Conforming clergymen?

Converting Ireland?

Tackling the tribes

Setting up the counties

Polarising the faiths

Claiming Calais

Feeling uneasy

Getting involved in a French squabble

Stirring Things Up with the Stuarts

Securing Scotland

Landing right in the thick of trouble

Wearing the crown, and losing the crown

Triggering revolt

Assessing the Decade: Girl Done Good?

Chapter 14: Gunning for Elizabeth

Attempting to Remove Elizabeth

Plotting with Ridolfi, 1572

Dodging the bullet

Plotting with Throckmorton, 1583

Rooting out Gregory’s Jesuits

Plotting with Babington, 1586

Counting the costs of the plots

Dealing with Irish Rebellion

Tackling the O’Neills

Stamping out the past

Proliferating plantations

Attempting to liberate Ireland

Imposing the peace?

Handling Parliament

Sparking religious fervour

Controlling the MPs

Grumbling with the Godly

Thrashing the theatres (and everything else enjoyable!)

Pressing the Presbyterians

Silencing the separatists

Wondering about Witchcraft

Preying on the poor

Going bump in the night

Hanging with the witches

Putting things in perspective

Chapter 15: Facing the Armada

Provoking Philip of Spain

Walking a fine line

Tightening up?

Stacking the deck in England’s favour

Plotting in the Shadows

Helping the Low Countries

Lording it over the Low Countries

Revolting in the Netherlands

Plundering with El Draco

Preparing for Invasion

Talking tactics with Elizabeth

Firing the fire ships

Losing Santa Cruz, and gaining Medina Sidonia

Smashing the Armada

Sighting the Spaniards

Preparing Dad’s Army

Keeping the crescent

Battling off Gravelines

Limping home

Inspiring the troops

Winning the Battle, Not the War

Considering another invasion

Lining up for a rematch?

Dispensing with Drake

Chapter 16: Ending an Era: 1590–1603

Dashing Devereux: Elizabeth’s Last Fling

Did they/didn’t they?

Climbing the promotion ladder

Failing in France

Stirring up the Council

Tackling Tyrone

Rebelling with Essex

Looking Beyond England

Saying Farewell to Gloriana

Gangin’ Doon wi’ Wee Jamie, or Going Down with King James VI

Part V: The Part of Tens

Chapter 17: Ten Top Tudor People

Anne Askew (1521–1546)

Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608)

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

Cecily Bodenham (?–1543?)

Elizabeth Throckmorton (1565–c.1647)

Dr John Dee (1527–1608)

John Foxe (1516–1587)

Martin Frobisher (c.1535–1594)

Polydore Vergil (c1470–1555)

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Chapter 18: Ten Things the Tudors Did for Us

Civilising the Nobility

Encouraging Self-government

Building Up Parliament

Breaking with Rome

Building the Navy

Putting a Woman on the Throne

Messing Up Ireland

Bringing in Bad Habits

Widening Horizons

Widening the (English) Channel

Chapter 19: Ten Top Tudor Buildings

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, Warwickshire

Burghley House, Stamford

Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight

Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire

Deal Castle, Kent

The Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge

Hampton Court, London

Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire

Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London

Penshurst Place, Kent

Chapter 20: Ten Major Tudor Events

The First Tudor King, Henry VII (1485)

Henry VIII’s Coronation (1509)

Breaking with Rome (1534)

Anne Boleyn’s execution (1536)

Dissolution of the Monasteries (1540)

Elizabeth I’s Ascension (1558)

Birth of William Shakespeare (1564)

Conflict with the Papacy (1570)

War with Spain (1585)

England’s Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

Chapter 21: Ten Tudor Firsts

Sailing into the First Dry Dock, Portsmouth (1495)

Building the First Printing Press in England, London (1500)

Publishing the First Cookery Book, London (1500)

Playing the First Lottery in England (1569)

Navigating with the First County Maps in England (1579)

Writing with the First Shorthand System (1588)

Inventing the First Knitting Frame (1589)

Flushing the First Water Closet (1596)

Nibbling the First Tomatoes in England (1597)

Drinking the First Coffee in England (1599)

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About the Authors

Professor David Loades studied history at Cambridge, where he researched under the great Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, and spent his entire working life teaching history at various universities including St Andrews, Durham and North Wales. He is Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, and for the duration of his directorship of the British Academy John Foxe Project, was Research Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is currently a member of the History Faculty of the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has just completed a book on Mary Tudor and is currently writing a biography of Henry VIII, as well as a book on the mid-Tudor navy.

Mei Trow is an historian and criminologist who has written a number of books on the more colourful personalities from history, such as Spartacus, Vlad the Impaler, Boudicca, El Cid and Kit Marlowe. Mei is also a novelist with two crime detective series to his credit and a third in development. He regularly appears on the Discovery and History Channels as an expert and presenter.

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Writing a For Dummies book has been a very different experience from writing the many other books I have published, but whatever I write owes much to my pupils during a lifetime of teaching. In this instance my first debt must be to my wife, Judith, who has worked her way through each chapter.

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– David Loades

My thanks as always to Carol, my wife, for all her hard work and technical know-how in putting The Tudors For Dummies together. My thanks also to Steve Edwards and his team, for their support and guidance.

– Mei Trow

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Introduction

The Tudors are in fashion. More than 500 years after the key events of the period, scholars, novelists and film-makers are flocking back to the 16th century. Fortunately, the Tudors left behind loads of clues as to who they were and what they wanted from life and for England. For example, in many ways the Tudor portrait painter Hans Holbein was the best publicist before Max Clifford!

The earlier, medieval rulers suffer from poor publicity, and if you want to study them, much of the research involves dry official records (accounts and grants for the most part). If you’re interested in Henry VIII or Elizabeth I, however, you have stacks of correspondence – some of it official, but much of it personal. Busy secretaries and ambassadors were writing everything down. Scholars have even uncovered Henry VIII’s love letters (or at least some of them). Of course, these sources didn’t always get the details right, but that’s where the fun begins. The official records still exist, of course, but with the Tudors you can finally get in touch with England’s leaders as human beings. The Tudor monarchs made mistakes, messed up matters and came up with some very creative solutions – and you can follow all the twists and turns in this book.

Additionally, the Tudors really were important. Many buildings you visit (and perhaps live in) throughout England and Wales were built in the 16th century. Institutions that you may take for granted, such as the Church of England or Parliament, were invented or took on new importance while the Tudors were on the throne.