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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alhazred" data-source="post: 2698395" data-attributes="member: 19335">I wrote my MA thesis on Elizabethan common law and church law, Parliament and the Church (of England).  I would post my bibliography but, well, much of what is there is inappropriate in light what you require (ie, too specific).As for general histories of the period, anything by G.R. Elton (especially England Under the Tudors ) and Patrick Collinson (especially The Elizabethan Puritan Movement and English Puritanism).  There's an excellent collection of essays, edited by John Guy, titled The Second Reign of Elizabeth: Court and Culture in the Last Decade.  Michael Grave's Early Tudor Parliaments is a quick read, although perhaps too specific.Allen Boyer's Sir Edward Coke and the Elizabethan Age is indispensible if you're at all interested in the conflicts between English common law and canon law, Parliament and the royal prerogative.The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village, by Eamon Duffy (who also wrote The Stripping of the Altars, a definite must read) is an excellent account, and quite humours, too, of the tug-of-war which occurred between the Catholics and Protestants as the fortunes English Reformation went back and forth between the two sides.Enjoy!</blockquote>