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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
T A Morris |
| ISBN: | 041515040X 9780415150408 0415150418 9780415150415 |
| OCLC Number: | 36755813 |
| Description: | xiv, 359 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. I. The Western European Environment -- Ch. 1. The Sixteenth Century in Context -- Ch. 2. The Intellectual Context of the Sixteenth Century -- Ch. 3. The European Reconnaissance -- Ch. 4. The First Generation of Religious Reform -- Ch. 5. Calvin and Calvinism -- Ch. 6. The Catholic Counter-Reformation -- Pt. II. The Rise of the Great Monarchies -- Ch. 7. Spain 1469-1555: From Unification to World Power -- Ch. 8. England in the Reign of Henry VII -- Ch. 9. International Conflict -- Ch. 10. Henry VIII: The Ascendancy of Wolsey -- Ch. 11. The Henrician Reformation -- Ch. 12. France in the Reigns of Francis I and Henry II -- Pt. III. The Crisis of the Great Monarchies -- Ch. 13. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in the Time of Charles V -- Ch. 14. The Reigns of Edward and Mary: A Mid-Tudor Crisis? -- Ch. 15. The French Wars of Religion -- Ch. 16. The Revolt of the Netherlands -- Ch. 17. Spain under Philip II -- Ch. 18. The England of Elizabeth: State, Church and Society -- Ch. 19. The England of Elizabeth: The Realm in Danger -- Ch. 20. Henry IV and the Recovery of France. |
| Responsibility: | T.A. Morris. |
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""Europe and England in the Sixteenth Century is gracefully written and informed by the most recent and best scholarship in the field....I especially liked the author's strategy of using significant source materials."<br>-Roger Schlesinger, Washington State University <br>"Morris has succeeded admirably in writing a clear, accessible, and up-to-date survey of sixteenth century European history. The text itself is clearly written and makes comprehensible some extremely complex events and phenomena."<br>-Mark Konnert, University of Calgary <br>"Clearly written, sensibly organised and balanced in its judgements."<br>-Susan Doran, St Mary's University College, Surrey <br>"A well written and helpful text. The balance between historiographical debate and the provision of information is good...and the juxtaposition of European and English history provides a valuable aid to the understanding of sixteenth-century themes."<br>-John Ross, Hemel Hempstead School, London <br> Read more...
