About the Author
David Loades is Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales. He taught at the universities of St Andrews and Durham, before moving to University of Wales, Bangor in 1980 as Professor of History. His previous books include Mary Tudor: A Life (Blackwell, 1989), Politics and the Nation: 1450-1660 (4th edn 1992), and The Tudor Court (1986).
Features
* Provides clear analysis of the structure of government in a key period of British history.
* Examines the machinery of central and local authority and relationship between the two.
* Sets developments against the background of the medieval period, and in context of contemporary social structures.
* Author is internationally-recognized scholar of the period.
