The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a
critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both …

The'Rough Wooings', fought by major figures of sixteenth-century Europe for the hand of the
young Mary Queen of Scots, were wars as intense, wide-ranging and devastating as the …

Exploring the effects of war on state power in early modern Europe, this book asks if military
competition increased rulers' power over their subjects and forged more modern states, or if …

Geoffrey Elton's model of Tudor politics, which emphasized the importance of political
institutions and which dominated our understanding of Tudor politics for much of the second …

Roberts first proposed an early modern European 'military revolution'in 1956 in his inaugural
lecture at Queen's University, Belfast. Roberts' thesis (in its most basic form) contended that …

Historians have generally argued that the feudal system in the later Middle Ages in England
had declined into obsolescence, at least as far as the aristocracy were concerned, and little …

This article offers some reflections on the processes of nation-making and state formation as
they affected the oldest ethnic and cultural grouping in the British Isles, that of the Gaedhil …

The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising in the north of England against Henry VIII's
religious policies, has long been recognised as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English …

The early Tudor North is often regarded as a lawless and disordered society where leading
magnates depended upon violence and codes of honor to maintain order. These codes of …

The polity over which the Tudors assumed control at the end of the fifteenth century,
although notoriously destabilized by the political violence characteristic of an aristocracy …