The Reign of Henry VIII : Politics, Policy and Piety

ISBN-13: 9780333578575 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Opis

This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers in early Tudor studies provides an up-to-date discussion of the politics, policy and piety of Henry VIII's reign. It explores such areas as the reform of central and local government, foreign policy, relations between leading politicians, life at Court, Henry's first divorce and the break with Rome, literature and the government's exploitation of it, and the growth of evangelical religion in Henry's England. Particular consideration is given to the controversies which have arisen about the reign among modern historians, and there is an effort to assess the personality of Henry himself.

Spis treści

Introduction; D. MacCulloch.- Henry VIII: The Political Perspective; E.W. Ives.- Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the Reform of Henrician Government; J.A. Guy.- The Progresses of Henry VIII 1508-1529; N. Samman.- War and Public Finance; R.W. Hoyle.- Foreign Policy; D.L. Potter.- The Literature and Propaganda of Henry's First Divorce; V. Murphy.- Henry VIII and the Reform of the Church; D. MacCulloch.- Literature, Drama and Politics; S. House.- Local Responses to the Henrician Reformation; R. Whiting.- Bibliography.- Notes.

O autorze

DIARMAID MACCULLOCH has held Research Fellowships from Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Leverhulme and Wingate Trusts. He lectures in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in Bristol University and also writes and lectures independently.