V Sixteenth Century.

Provides an overview of several books on the social history of Great Britain and Europe during the 16th century. Collection of essays on Tudor England in its British and Irish context featured in the book "The Sixteenth Century, 1485-1603," by P. Collinson; Ideologies of several British monarchs explained in "Renaissance Monarchy: The Reigns of Henry VIII, Francis I and Charles V," by G. Richardson; Focus on contemporary polemical literature in "Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI," by S. Alford.