Conclusion: “Such an honourable seruice”

Hower, Jessica S.

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Jessica S. Hower⁵

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This chapter argues that a British nation, empire, and Atlantic world forged under Tudor auspices by the monarchy and its subjects echoed into the early decades of the seventeenth century, after the accession of James VI of Scotland as James I of England. It closes the book by shedding new light on the regnal divide and highlighting some of the ways in which sixteenth-century activity and achievements shaped later projects and processes, as Stuart theorists and adventurers reproduced and manipulated, complimented and critiqued the Tudor past to serve their own, present and future ends.

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Hower, J.S. (2020). Conclusion: “Such an honourable seruice”. In: Tudor Empire. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62892-5_8

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