TUDOR REBELLIONS 1485-1603

Tudor Rebellions 1485-1603



Tudor Rebellions 1485-1603

Introduction

The Tudor Revolution in Government's anniversary motivated requests to address the reformation brought about by Professor Elton in our beliefs of the Tudor Age. In Chicago and Washington, the chief apprehension was with the change in subject matter apparent in his two foremost accounts of the historical periods. The concern was about the factual account of change in the manner of narration and justification of the Tudor history. Contemporaries recommended additional contemplation of the manner in which the trouble approached, and debate of a book-length study of Professor Elton's vocation necessitated the consideration. In spite of Sir Geoffrey's personal influence, that history not taught by the historians; however, his contradictory views apparent in his writings encouraged history's lesson to be learned via historians (Elton 1991, 65). In Elton's chief histories of the English Reformation period, his techniques of explanation, and their connection to his narrative modes-plot came under scrutiny. Plus, there are significant ideological inferences in his commemoration of political history in narration.

The Tudor era was witness to great changes, revolution and transformation, particularly affecting matters of faith and politics that are still influential today. In the fifteenth century, the English nobility was less numerous than in other countries of the continent was unified, there were no independent territorial lords with domains. Cities, from the beginning, depended on the king, and thus had economic and commercial freedoms. As in other Western European societies during the fourteenth century the English nobility, assembled in Parliament, faced with the monarchy (Zagorín, 1982, 153-200).

However, the administration and royal authority in England were much stronger and were centralized long before the rest of the continent. Moreover, the loyalty of the nobility to the monarchy was insured for more than one hundred years (between 1339 and 1453 developed the Hundred Years' War) by the English victories in the battlefields in France.

Tudor “Revolution in Government”

With the publication of The Tudor Revolution in Government, Elton sought to recast the history of early Tudor England, shifting the debate on the development of government from discussion of the Tudors' despotism towards an appreciation of the strengths and virtues of their central administration. In particular, he argued that the 1530s were marked by a revolution in government - the transformation of a medieval ad hoc administration, dominated by the king's household, into a modern bureaucratic system. The architect of this revolution was Thomas Cromwell, “a modern type of English statesman” (Elton 1953, 300). Cromwell was the creator of the Tudor Privy Council, the instigator of a reorganization of the work of the royal secretaries, and an innovator in financial administration long dominated first by the exchequer and then by the Chamber. New structures were developed (such as the Court of Augmentations, to handle monastic land revenue), and the personnel and departments of the royal household were excluded from royal government. The subsequent influence of The Tudor Revolution in Government reflected both the boldness of Elton's thesis and the impressive archival scholarship upon which ...