Table of Contents:
  • The Tudor succession
  • Henry VII : founding of a new dynasty
  • Henry VIII : the personification of power
  • The Reformation and British "imperial" kingship
  • Mid-Tudor crisis and succession
  • Philip and Mary : an experiment in dual monarchy
  • The early Elizabethan polity
  • Material culture and the arts
  • After the Armada
  • Chronology.