HIST 287 Lecture Notes - Tudor Rose, House Of Tudor, Tudor Period
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Titles not part of the peerage: baronets and knights. Baronets are identified by the prefix sir, and they are hereditary titles. Throughout the middle ages, europeans had relied on the julian calendar: but there were flaws. By the mid 1500s there were many proposals for a calendar reform: the gregorian calendar. Britain did not adopt the new calendar until 1752. Our period only uses the old julian calendar. It"s a country of many languages: welsh, cornish, gaelic and english: multi-lingual area at that time. Many dioceses in britain (religions: a cathedral defines the city, exceptions are oxford and cambridge due to their universities and history. Ireland has irish lords which controls the areas they are in. Government under the early tudors and monarchial culture. The war of the roses in 1455 the two monarchs are known for centralizing and modernizing the state: house of lancaster and house of york. Both belived they had the rightful claim to the english throne.
