The Welsh Gentry 1536-1640: Images of Status, Honour and Authority - Softcover

John Gwynfor Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783169842 ISBN 13: 9781783169849

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2016

Synopsis

This stimulating and comprehensive study of the period between the establishment of the new Tudor administrative framework and the outbreak of the Civil War offers a well-grounded and fascinating survey of the attitudes, opinions and responses of the gentry to the political and religious circumstances in which they lived.The book discusses the ways in which the gentry, thrust into positions of prominence in the context of the Tudor state, interpreted that status and authority they enjoyed and the power entrusted to them. It surveys the influence which the concept of the 'island empire' had on attitudes to public roles and duties, and traces the extent to which loyalties to the Crown and to kindred groupings affected the image projected by the gentry in their political, religious and domestic roles. The book is given an added dimension by a consideration of gentry attitudes in Wales in the context of the humanist ideas current in Europe.

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About the Author

John Gwynfor Jones was Professor of Welsh History at Cardiff University. His many publications include: Wales and the Tudor State, 1534-1603 (1989), Sir John Wynn: The History of the Gwydir Family and Memoirs (1990), Concepts of Order and Gentility in Wales, 1540-1640 (1992), Early Modern Wales, 1526-1640 (1994), The Wynn Family of Gwydir, c. 1490-1674 (1995) and Law, Order and Government in Caernarfonshire, 1558-1640 )1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783169842
• ISBN 13: 9781783169849
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336