Böcker av Steven G. Ellis

The second edition of the standard survey of Ireland from the late medieval period to the Tudor conquest. Offering a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. Includes two new chapters on the Lancastrian collapse and the Gaelic response to Tudor expansion. In the LONGMAN HISTORY OF IRELAND series.

This text examines the formation of the British state. Topics covered include: Tudor state formation; Tudor reform in Wales and Ireland; Anglo-Scottish Protestant culture; the Anglican Church and the unity of Britain; and the Gaelic reaction to the Reformation.

Recounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, Reformation crisis, reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, British multiple monarchy and Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and Restoration of Monarchy.