This book offers a novel perspective on Tudor government and British state formation. It argues
that traditional studies focusing on lowland England as ‘the normal context of government…

… , that the study of the Tudor state has been distorted by overmuch … a deliberate attempt at
state-making by the Henrician government… a salutary jolt to our understanding of Tudor politics. …

… principles to the j early Tudor period. This comparative … frontier regions of the early-Tudor
state in the period 1485-1540. This study rests on three main assumptions that: (a) the Tudors …

… Tudor … Tudor frontier is a scholarly gem of a toadstone. For polemical purposes, Ellis
exaggerates the late Sir Geoffrey Elton’s theory of the emergence of the modem English nation-state …

… Known for his works on Tudor Ireland, Ellis has been comparing Tudor frontier … Succinctly
put, he believes that the modern British state was formed in part by the failure of the Tudor state …

… willy-nilly in the later Tudor period in consequence of the … Such a process of acculturation
did occur along the frontier … , as members of a power elite that ruled the Tudor state on behalf of …

… In Ireland, the Tudors shared a frontier with the Gaelic peoples, a politically fragmented … of
noble power. Thus rebel demands in the Pilgrimage reflected a similar combination of noble, …

… And in so far as the early Tudor frontier figured at all in the literature, it was not as a … of
the new British state. In effect, Tudor centralization had reshaped power structures to create a …

… 38 On all this, see SG Ellis, Tudor frontiers and noble power: the making of the British
state, Oxford 1995, ch. 2; Id., … Id., Tudor frontiers and noble power: the making of the British …

… the Tudor state… frontier regions - but with rather less success. Ellis paints a convincing portrait
of a region in which law and order were undermined by the Tudor reduction of noble power…