Diarmaid MacCulloch was Professor of the History of the Church in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. His previous publications include Reformation: Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 (2003), A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009) and Thomas Cromwell: A Life (2018).

Anthony Fletcher was Professor of History, University of Essex.

List of illustrations; Preface to the seventh edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Who's who; Part I The background: Chapter 1 The shape of Tudor society; Chapter 2 Ideas of submission, ideas of justice; Part II Descriptive analysis: Chapter 3 The first Tudors: from rebels to rulers; Chapter 4 Rebellions in the era of Thomas Cromwell; Chapter 5 The Western Rebellion; Chapter 6 Robert Kett and the 'rebellions of Commonwealth'; Chapter 7 Wyatt's Rebellion; Chapter 8 The Northern Rebellion; Chapter 9 Epilogue Part III Assessment: Chapter 10 Rebellion and Tudor government; Part IV Documents: Document 1 The Duke of Norfolk to Wolsey, 1525; Document 2 The examination of Nicholas Leche, 1536; Document 3 The Lincoln Articles, 1536; Document 4 The Oath of the Honourable Men, 1536; Document 5 Robert Aske to the lords at Pontefract, 1536; Document 6 The Pilgrims' Ballad, 1536; Document 7 The commons of Westmorland to Lord Darcy, 1536; Document 8 Advice to the Pilgrims at Pontefract, 1536; Document 9 The Pontefract Articles, 1536; Document 10 Richard Morison, A Remedy for Sedition, 1536; Document 11 The examination of Robert Aske, 1537; Document 12 Petition of Suffolk bondmen on the former Howard Manors of Kelsale, Framlingham, Peasenhall and Earl Soham to Protector Somerset, 1547-48; Document 13 The demands of the western rebels, 1549; Document 14 A Copy of a Letter, 1549; Document 15 Philip Nichols's Answer to the Commoners of Devonshire and Cornwall, 1549; Document 16 The Council to the Justices of the Peace of Devon, 1549; Document 17 The Council to Lord Russell, 1549; Document 18 'Kett's demands being in rebellion', 1549; Document 19 Royal letter to those assembled in Norfolk, 1549; Document 20 Nicholas Sotherton, 'The Commoyson in Norfolk', 1549; Document 21 William Paget to Protector Somerset, 1549; Document 22 Sir Thomas Wyatt's scheme for a local militia, 1549; Document 23 The Tower chronicle, 1554; Document 24 The proclamation of the earls, 1569; Document 25 Sir Ralph Sadler to Sir William Cecil, 1569; Document 26 The examination of the Earl of Northumberland, 1572; Guide to further reading; Index