The Mid-Tudor Crisis by David Loades

The Mid-Tudor Crisis by David Loades. He focuses on the period between 1545 and 1565 and he questions if there really was a crisis in that period or is viewed like this due to hindsight and, even more, due to Elizabethan propaganda.
I’ve enjoyed his style of writing and I think the book could easily be enjoyed by non-historians.

During those 20 years there were problems, such as issues with the cloth trade, a few rebellions, the coup-d-etat tried by Northumberland with the Royal succession in 1553. Nevertheless, that period was not more in crisis than previous and successive periods.

In the book, Loades touches on three different aspects: the State, Society, and the Church. In the last chapter he makes the point that in 1565 Elizabeth was unmarried and the most likely successor was Mary Queen of Scots, a catholic with French connections, making someone who lived at that time thinking that a crisis might follow. I think that is a much more comprehensive way to look at the period.

The Mid-Tudor Crisis by David Loades

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My rating: 5/5 Stars
Would I recommend it: Yes
Published by: Red Globe Press
Year it was published: 1992
Format: Paperback
Genre(s): History
Pages: 224

About the author: David Michael Loades was a British historian, specialised in the Tudor period. His career started with a military service in the Royal Air Force for two years in the 1950s. After that Loades studied at the University of Cambridge. In the 1960s and 1970s he was a teacher at the universities of St. Andrews and Durham.
Between 1980 and 1996 David Loades was Professor of History at the University of Wales. He received the emeritus status. After that he served as Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield, starting from 1996 and until 2008. He died in 2016.
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