The Tudor Sheriff: A Study in Early Modern Administration
Autor Jonathan McGovernen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 ian 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780192848246
ISBN-10: 0192848240
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0192848240
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Drawing upon impressively wide-ranging archival work in administrative and legal records... the book ably succeeds in its central ambition of demonstrating in comprehensive detail the workings of the shrieval system under the Tudors.
This could, like so much institutional history, have been a somewhat dry book, but McGovern has skilfully leavened his discussion with a plethora of colourful examples... McGovern has produced a valuable addition to the literature, based on extensive archival work in both national and local repositories, and one that is not only informative, but readable and even enjoyable. This is administrative history at its best, and a book that should be essential reading for anyone concerned with the government or politics of the long 16th century.
Anyone who has worked on the administrative history of Tudor England has glimpsed the sheriff, a key figure in regional governance. Dr McGovern's book offers the most comprehensive effort so far to survey and summarise the work of these officers... [A]n exhaustively detailed study... attests to the capacity for painstaking administrative reconstruction to be valuable in its own right
[P]erhaps what is most striking about this book is the confidence and flair with which it is written...there is much to commend, from the depth and breadth of archival research on display, to the comprehensive and ambitious nature of the study...At a fair price, there is no reason why this book should not occupy a valuable space in university libraries across the kingdom. Perhaps this publication will inspire others and pave the way for a series of new studies into the other various key offices of local administration in early modern England.
In McGovern's trenchant commentary, industrious research, and explanatory clarity, The Tudor Sheriff is an Eltonian book.
This could, like so much institutional history, have been a somewhat dry book, but McGovern has skilfully leavened his discussion with a plethora of colourful examples... McGovern has produced a valuable addition to the literature, based on extensive archival work in both national and local repositories, and one that is not only informative, but readable and even enjoyable. This is administrative history at its best, and a book that should be essential reading for anyone concerned with the government or politics of the long 16th century.
Anyone who has worked on the administrative history of Tudor England has glimpsed the sheriff, a key figure in regional governance. Dr McGovern's book offers the most comprehensive effort so far to survey and summarise the work of these officers... [A]n exhaustively detailed study... attests to the capacity for painstaking administrative reconstruction to be valuable in its own right
[P]erhaps what is most striking about this book is the confidence and flair with which it is written...there is much to commend, from the depth and breadth of archival research on display, to the comprehensive and ambitious nature of the study...At a fair price, there is no reason why this book should not occupy a valuable space in university libraries across the kingdom. Perhaps this publication will inspire others and pave the way for a series of new studies into the other various key offices of local administration in early modern England.
In McGovern's trenchant commentary, industrious research, and explanatory clarity, The Tudor Sheriff is an Eltonian book.
Notă biografică
Jonathan McGovern holds BA and MSt degrees from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of York. His work has won a number of prizes, including the Parliamentary History Essay Prize (2019), the Sir John Neale Essay Prize (2018) and the Gordon Forster Essay Prize (2018). He has published widely on the history and literature of the sixteenth century, on themes ranging from allegory, sermons, and balladry to political and parliamentary history.