Tudor Placemen and Statesmen

Tudor Placemen and Statesmen
Author: Narasingha Prosad Sil
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838639122

This investigation thus seeks to examine the theory of the Tudor revolution in government advanced by the late Sir Geoffrey Elton and in so doing helps to highlight the human and personal dimensions of institutional history. An outcome of this changed perspective is that the privy chamber acquires a higher profile (following David Starkey's path-breaking revisionist research) than the privy council (as postulated by Elton) in the remarkable "revolutionary" decades of the sixteenth century.".

Thomas Matthews' Welsh Records in Paris

Thomas Matthews' Welsh Records in Paris
Author: Dylan Rees
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0708323022

This book comprises of a re-publication of Thomas Matthew's 1910 edition of Welsh documents held in the Archives Nationale of France, together with new introductions to the original work and to its editor. The aim is to make the documents, from the Medieval period relating to Llewelyn Fawr, the Bishop of Menevia and Owain Glyndwr, available to a new audience; to consider them from a contemporary perspective; to update and revise Matthew's original evaluation, and to note recent developments in scholarship in this area. In addition the book will examine the life, work and contribution of Thomas Matthews to Welsh culture through exploration of his Pan-Celtic links and though his contribution to education, Welsh literature and the Arts.