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Early Tudor government, 1485-1558
Early Tudor government was controversial among contemporaries and remains so among historians. This book analyses the historical debates over the 'new monarchy' and the 'Tudor revolution in government', but seeks to go beyond them by setting the growing strength of the crown under Henry VII and Henry VIII in the context of our developing understanding of later medieval English government and politics. It focuses on the interaction of political and administrative developments in the implementation of various aspects of state power, rather than on institutional change. The king's control of the localities, the judicial system, crown finances and the growing claims of the state are reviewed in the context of trends such as the development of the crown estate, the changing relationship between royal and noble power, the growth of the court, the increasing centrality of the king's...
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