¹⁵ Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1992). On the writing of Elizabethan nationalism see especially Richard Helgerson’s seminal Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992).

¹⁶ G. R. Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1953).

¹⁷ For a rebuttal of Elton’s thesis see Christopher Coleman and David Starkey (eds), Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the Histories of Tudor Government and Administration (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986). On the mid-fifteenth-century emergence of the language of commonwealth, see Starkey’s essay in that volume, entitled ‘Which Age of Reform?’, 13–27.