The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

Steven Gunn

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Oxford University Press
18 January 2018

History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Social & cultural history; Military history

Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries. But how much did these wars really affect his subjects? And what role did Henry's reign play in the long-term transformation of England's military capabilities?

The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII searches for the answers to these questions in parish and borough account books, wills and memoirs, buildings and paintings, letters from Henry's captains, and the notes readers wrote in their printed history books. It looks back from Henry's reign to that of his grandfather, Edward IV, who in 1475 invaded France in the afterglow of the Hundred Years War, and forwards to that of Henry's daughter Elizabeth, who was trying by the 1570s to shape a trained militia and a powerful navy to defend England in a Europe increasingly polarised by religion. War, it shows, marked Henry's England at every turn: in the news and prophecies people discussed, in the money towns and villages spent on armour, guns, fortifications, and warning beacons, in the way noblemen used their power. War disturbed economic life, made men buy weapons and learn how to use them, and shaped people's attitudes to the king and to national history. War mobilised a high proportion of the English population and conditioned their relationships with the French and Scots, the Welsh and the Irish. War should be recognised as one of the defining features of life in the England of Henry VIII.

By: Steven Gunn
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198802860
ISBN 10: 0198802862
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 18 January 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: The king's wars 2: Wars and rumours of wars 3: Towns and villages 4: Noblemen and gentlemen 5: Trade and tillage 6: Killing and dying 7: Kings and peoples 8: This busy world of war Bibliography

Steven Gunn studied at Merton College, Oxford. He has held research fellowships there and at the University of Newcastle, and is now Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College and Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford. His books include Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c.1484-1545 (1988), Early Tudor Government 1485-1558 (1995), Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England (2016) and, with David Grummitt and Hans Cools, War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (2007).

Reviews for The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

The value of this book is twofold. Professor Gunn's knowledge of the topic is broad and deep. His forceful argument is written with such stylistic agility that its massive supporting material does not overwhelm it. But the very number of examples, drawn from so many different sources, provides a second value. No student of the Tudor world, or of the early modern military, will be unable to find some new, intriguing fact at every turning of the page. * Eric Klingelhofer, H-War * Gunn's book is a social history of war, and what a fascinating social history it is... essential reading for anyone hoping to understand not just Tudor warfare, but Tudor society as a whole. It is not conventional military history at all, and it is much the better for it. * Jonathan Healey, Literary Review * A book of extraordinary range and depth, based on an astonishing wealth of archival research and argued with subtlety and conviction. * Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement *