An English Garner: Tudor tracts, 1532-1588

By A.F. Pollard and Thomas Seccombe

Book Overview

Power, faith, and policy collide on the page. Tudor voices, sharp, raw, urgent. In An English Garner: Tudor tracts, 1532-1588, A. F. Pollard shapes a historical documents anthology from the pamphlets and polemics that drove public argument in 16th century England, from the first shocks of reform to the hardening politics of the later Tudor and Elizabethan era. Each tract is a point of pressure: on the Crown, on the Church, on the citizen. This is a tudor pamphlets collection with the immediacy of a street-corner debate and the weight of a state paper, revealing how policy was sold, resisted, and justified in print. Here, english reformation writings meet tudor political tracts, and religious controversy pamphlets sit alongside practical voices of governance, propaganda, and dissent. Pollard's selection makes the period legible without sanding down its heat. For tudor history research, it offers a direct route into how ideas travelled before newspapers; for an early modern literature course, it is a rich sampling of english renaissance prose at its most plain-spoken, combative, and inventive. Read as a British history sourcebook or simply for the drama of lived conviction, it shows language forging loyalties and breaking them. For the browser, it reads like a chain of voices; for collectors, a cornerstone of Tudor print culture, startlingly alive today. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9389247071
• ISBN13: 9789389247077
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"