Sommerville: 1. Parliament 1500-1600 (20) 2. The Early Reformation (24) 3. The Mid-Tudor Years (14) 4. Elizabethan Government (13) 5. Family, Sex, and Marriage (25) 6. English Civil War (6+11 articles)
Theme One: Parliament 1500-1600 1. JS Roskell 'Perspectives in English Parliamentary History' in E Fryde and E Miller, ed, Historical studies of the English Parliament, vol II 2. J Gillingham 'Parliament, taxation and the defence of the realm' in Falkus and Gillingham, Historical Atlas of Great Britain 3. GR Elton 'Tudor government: the points of contact I: Parliament' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 24 (1974) 4. MAR Graves, The Tudor Parliaments 5. MAR Graves, Elizabethan Parliaments 6. JE Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons 7. GR Elton 'The Rolls of Parliament, 1449-1547' Historical Journal 22 (1979) 8. SE Lehmberg, The Reformation parliament, 1529-36 9. SE Lehmberg, The Later Parliaments of Henry VIII 10. GR Elton, Reform and Renewal, esp chapters 4-6 11. GR Elton, The Parliament of England 1559-1581 12. MAR Graves, The House of Lords in the parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I 13. JE Neale, Elizabeth and her parliaments 2 vols 14. David Starkey 'History without politics' Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 28 (1977) 15. Jennifer Loach 'Conservatism and consent in parliament, 1547-1559' in J Loach and R Tittler, eds, The mid-tudor polity 16. GR Elton 'Parliament in the sixteenth century: functions and fortunes' Historical Journal 22 (1979) 17. NL Jones 'Parliament and governance of Elizabethan England: a review', Albion 19 (1987), 327-46 18. J Loach, Parliaments under the Tudors 19. D Dean, Law-making and society in late-elizabethan England: the parliament of England 1584-1601 20. Allen D. Boyer, Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age. Stanford University Press, 2003
Theme Two: The Early Reformation (24) 1. C Haigh, 'The recent historiography of the English Reformation' Historical Journal 25 (1982) (superb summary of the whole field) 2. AG Dickens, The English Reformation (strongly pushing the 'from below' interpretation) 3. JJ Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English people (opposes Dickens) 4. E Duffy, The stripping of the altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1580 (important, full scale attempt to vindicate the Catholic view) 5. Claire Cross, Church and people 6. C Haigh (ed.) The English Reformation revised 7. P Heath, The English parish clergy on the eve of the Reformation 8. M Bowker, The secular clergy in the diocese of Lincoln 9. Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. New York, 1999 10. M Bowker 'The commons' supplication against the ordinaries in the light of some archidiaconal acta' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 21 (1971) 11. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2002 12. Ethan H. Shagan,. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge: CUP 2003 13. GR Elton, Policy and police 14. Joyce Youings, The dissolution of the monasteries 15. Christopher Haigh 'The continuity of Catholicism in the English Reformation' Past and Present, 93, 1981 16. Lucy E. C. Wooding, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000 17. ME Aston, 'Lollardy and the Reformation: survival or revival?', History 49 (1964) 18. JAF Thomson, The later Lollards 1414-1520 (revised ed.) 19. DM Loades, Revolution in religion: the English Reformation 1530-70 20. C Haigh, The English Reformations 21. R Warnicke, Anne Boleyn (see also Ives' review, in Historical Journal) 22. Christopher Haigh, 'Success and Failure in the English Reformation' Past and Present 2001 173 23. Alec Ryrie, 'The Strange death of Lutheran England' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2002 (53) 24. Wright, J. (1999). Surviving the English Reformation: Commonsense, conscience, and circumstance, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29
Theme Three: The Mid-Tudor Years (15) 1. *Jennifer Loach & Robert Tittler, The Mid-Tudor polity 2. Jennifer Loach, Edward VI. Yale English Monarchs. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999 3. *WRD Jones, The mid-tudor crisis, 1539-1563 4. *GR Elton, Reform and Reformation 5. *Conrad Russell, Crisis of Parliaments, pp123-144 6. *ML Bush, The government policy of protector Somerset 7. *D Hoak, The king's council in the reign of Edward VI 8. *Robert Tittler, The Reign of Mary I (2nd Edition) Longman 1991 9. *Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI, CUP 2002 10. *GR Elton, The Tudor revolution in government, pp 223-258 11. J Alsop, 'The revenue commission of 1552' Historical Journal 22 (1979) 12. F Heal, Of prelates and princes 13. R Podgson, 'Reginald Pole and the priorities of government in Mary Tudor's church' Historical Journal, 18(1975) 14. Jordan Edward IV: The Threshold of Power 15. Jordan, Edward VI: The Young King
Theme Four: Elizabethan Government, 1558-1603 (13) 1 JE Neale, Queen Elizabeth I 2 C Haigh, Elizabeth I (2nd edition, 2000), 3 S Adams, 'Politics, faction and clientage in late Tudor England' History Today 32 (1982) 4 AGR Smith, The government of Elizabethan England 5 W T MacCaffrey 'Place and patronage in Elizabethan politics' in S.T.Bindoff ed., Elizabethan government and society 6 JE Neale, 'The Elizabethan age' and 'The Elizabethan political scene' in Essays in Elizabethan history 7 P Williams, The Tudor regime 8 Michael A.R. Graves, Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Profiles in Power. London and New York: Longman, 1998 9 W T MacCaffrey, 'The crown and the new aristocracy' Past and Present 30 (1965) 10 W T MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime 1558-72 11 W T MacCaffrey, Queen Elizabeth and the making of policy, 1572-88 12 W T MacCaffrey, Elizabeth I: War and politics 1588-1603 13 S Adams 'Favourites and Factions at the Elizabethan Court' in RG Asch and AM Burke ed., Princes, patronage and the nobility
Theme Five: The Family, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern England ( gender ) 1. R Houlbrooke, English family life 2. A Macfarlane, Review of (1) in History and theory 18 (1979) 3. S Ozment, When fathers ruled: family life in Reformation Europe 4. M Ingram, 'The reform of popular culture? Sex and marriage in early modern England', in B Reay, ed., Popular culture in early modern England 5. M Ingram, Church courts, sex and marriage in England 1570-1640 6. GR Quaife, Wanton wenches and wayward wives: peasants and illicit sex in early seventeenth century England 7. K Thomas, 'The double standard', Journal of the History of Ideas 20 (1959) 8. RB Schnucker, 'Elizabethan birth control', Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4(1975) 9. K Wrightson, 'Infanticide in earlier seventeenth century England', Local Population Studies 15 (1975) 10. R Houlbrooke, 'The making of marriage in mid-tudor England', Journal of Family History 10 (1985) 11. MR Sommerville, Sex and subjection: attitudes to women in early modern society 12. M Prior, ed., Women in English Society 1500-1800 13. A L Erickson, Women and Property in Early Modern England 14. P Hogrefe, Tudor women: commoners and queens 15. P Rushton, 'Women, witchcraft and slander', Northern History 18 (1982) 16. J Nadelhaft, 'The Englishwoman's sexual civil war', Journal of the History of Ideas 1982 17. V Fildes ed., Women as mothers in pre-industrial England 18. Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998 19. Anne Laurence, Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994 20. Jennifer Kermode and Garthine Walker, eds. Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994 21. Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before her 1995 22. Eales, Jacqueline, Women in Early Modern England 1500-1700 London: UCL Press 1998 23. J Daybell ed., Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 24. Laura Gowing Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth- Century England Yale University Press, 2003 25. Thomas Gataker, Marriage Duties (1620)
Theme Six: English Civil War Introductory 1. JP Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots 2. Ann Hughes, Causes of the English Civil War 3. Conrad Russell, Causes of the English Civil War 4. David Scott, Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-1649. British History in Perspective Series Macmillan, 2004. 5. D Underdown. Revel, riot and rebellion: popular politics and culture in England 1603-1660 6. C Russell, ed., The origins of the English Civil War Some articles CSR Russell, 'Parliamentary history in perspective, 1604-1629' History 61 (1976) JH Hexter. 'Power struggle, parliament and liberty in early Stuart England' Journal of Modern History 50 (1978) on revisionism C Hill 'Parliament and people in seventeenth-century England' Past and Present 92 (1981) on revisionism TK Rabb & D Hirst, 'Revisionism revised' Past and Present 92 (1981) on revisionism JP Sommerville "English and European political ideas in the early seventeenth century: revisionism and the case of absolutism", Journal of British Studies 35 (1996), 168-94 Jenny Wormald, 'James VI & I: two kings or one?' History 68 (1978) JA Guy 'The origins of the Petition of Right reconsidered' Historical Journal, 25 (1982); [but also see Kishlansky's demolition in Historical Journal] R Zaller 'What does the English Revolution mean?', Albion 18(1986), 617-35 DR Como, 'Predestination and political conflict in Laud's London' The Historical Journal 46 (2003) religion K. Fincham, 'The Restoration of altars in 1630', Historical Journal 44 (2001) religion John Walter, Abolishing Superstition with Sedition? The Politics of Popular Iconoclasm in England 1640 1642 Past and Present 2004 183: 79-123 religion