Abstract
Government is a mystery. Why many people should obey one or a few can never be taken for granted. The fact is obvious now, and there has been a stream of articles on the theme ‘is Britain ungovernable?’. But in earlier times, we feel, things were a lot simpler: the machinery of government was smaller and kings were kings indeed. It is a nice thought, but like most other notions of the simple life of our ancestors, it is a myth. Their life — and government — were different from ours; they were no less problematic, however.
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G.R. Elton, Reform and Reformation (London, 1977); The Reign of Elizabeth I, ed. Christopher Haigh (London, 1984); The Mid-Tudor Polity, ed. Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler (London, 1980); J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (London, 1968); R.L. Storey, The Reign of Henry VII (London, 1968); Penry Williams, The Tudor Regime (Oxford, 1979).
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Starkey, D. (1986). The Governance of Tudor England. In: Smith, L.M. (eds) The Making of Britain. The Making of Britain. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18167-4_3
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