England Under the Tudors - King Henry VII 1485-1509
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491_9781443720847
ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS KING HENRY VII 1485-1509. by DR. WILHELM BUSCH. TRANSLATED BY ALICE M. TODD. Originally published in U.S.A in 1895. INTRODUCTION: ALTHOUGH English history has been his principal study, the name of Dr. Wilhelm Busch is not yet so well known in this country as in his own, where, after being eagerly sought for as a teacher by one university after another, he now fills a professorship of history at Freiburg, in Baden. Yet his writings on sixteenth-century diplomacy, and especially on the foreign policy of Cardinal Wolsey, have attracted the attention of scholars, not only in this country and in Germany, but in France and it is already evident that whoever here after intends to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the beginnings of our modern European system must devote a certain amount of study to Dr. Buschs writings. But, if we may judge of the future by the past, the students debt to him will certainly be much more considerable when he has finished the work of which the first volume, published in German three years ago at Stuttgart, is here presented to the English reader in his own language. As I have special reason for taking an interest in this first volume, and some notes of mine are actually appended to it, I may perhaps be allowed here to say a few words, not only for Dr. Busch, but for myself. It is very many years now since my attention was first devoted to the reign of Henry VII., and I collected in one of the earlier volumes of the Rolls Series of Chronicles certain Memorials of that reign, which I heartily wish had been edited with better knowledge and training on my part The contents of that volume, how ever, being original documents of the period, had a value independent of the editing and it was shortly afterwards followed up by two other volumes of papers relating to the same period In these three volumes I really exhausted all the more readable and significant of the then imprinted documents of the reign that were
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