England Under the Tudors - Paperback

by G. R. Elton (Author)

Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under The Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publication in 1955 England Under the Tudors charts a historical period that witnessed monumental changes in religion, monarchy, and government - and one that continued to shape British history long after. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Author Biography

G.R.Elton (1921-1994) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College. Renowned as one of the leading historians of his era and the author of many influential books on the Tudor period, he was also a defender of a traditional, factual-based view of history. He was famous for his role in the influential 'Carr-Elton Debate' in the 1960s, where he argued for a scientific approach to history against the historian E.H.Carr's more relativistic view.