Reassessing the Henrician Age
Author | : Alistair Fox |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631146148 |
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Author | : Alistair Fox |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631146148 |
Author | : Peter C. Herman |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252063404 |
Author | : J. Woolfson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2002-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230506275 |
This collection of essays by an international team of experts, explores the wideranging impact of Renaissance humanism on sixteenth century England. Investigating areas as diverse as art, education, religion, political thought, literature and science, the book offers fresh and challenging accounts of prominent Tudor figures such as Thomas More, William Tyndale and John Foxe. As well as historiographical overviews of the subject and a discussion of the fifteenth century background to Tudor developments, one of the book's central themes is the nature of England's fundamental cultural experiences in relation to continental Europe.
Author | : Diarmaid MacCulloch |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1995-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312128920 |
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.
Author | : Jennifer Summit |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226781720 |
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Author | : Tracey A. Sowerby |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191574600 |
Sir Richard Morison (c.1513-1556) is best known as Henry VIII's most prolific propagandist. Yet he was also an accomplished scholar, politician, theologian and diplomat who was linked to the leading political and religious figures of his day. Despite his prominence, Morison has never received a full historical treatment. Based on extensive archival research, Renaissance and Reform in Tudor England provides a well-rounded picture of Morison that contributes significantly to the broader questions of intellectual, cultural, religious, and political history. Tracey Sowerby contextualizes Morison within each of his careers: he is considered as a propagandist, politician, reformer, diplomat and Marian exile. Morison emerges as a more influential and original figure than previously thought.
Author | : Stephen Alford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2002-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521892858 |
An alternative account of the so-called 'succession crisis' in the first decade of the reign of Elizabeth I.
Author | : Lucy Wooding |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317520300 |
This new edition of Lucy Wooding’s Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Henry was a Renaissance prince whose Court dazzled with artistic display, yet he was also a savage adversary, who ruthlessly crushed all those who opposed him. Five centuries after his reign, he continues to fascinate, always evading easy characterization. Wooding locates Henry VIII firmly in the context of the English Renaissance and the fierce currents of religious change that characterized the early Reformation, as well as exploring the historiographical debates that have surrounded him and his reign. This new edition takes into account significant advances in recent research, particularly following the five hundredth anniversary of his accession in 2009, to put forward a distinctive interpretation of Henry’s personality and remarkable style of kingship. It gives a fresh portrayal of Henry VIII, cutting away the misleading mythology that surrounds him in order to provide a vivid account of this passionate, wilful, intelligent and destructive king. This compelling biography will be essential reading for all early modern students.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 125003759X |
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I. Rich in detail and atmosphere, Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is the story of Henry VIII's relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under "Bloody Mary." It tells, too, of the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots against the queen and even an invasion force, finally brought stability. Above all, however, it is the story of the English Reformation and the making of the Anglican Church. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, England was still largely feudal and looked to Rome for direction; at its end, it was a country where good governance was the duty of the state, not the church, and where men and women began to look to themselves for answers rather than to those who ruled them.
Author | : David Loades |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1996-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349250481 |
England was the most centralised state in medieval Europe. The Tudors built on this situation to reduce still further the provincial power of the nobility, and to eliminate the remaining jurisdictional franchises. But sixteenth century England was not monolithic, nor homogeneous. There were still strong local identities, both political and culture, and the Tudors achieved success by working through the local elites, rather than against them.