Reform and reformation \ Arnold Edward

By:

Edward, Arnold

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : G.R. Elton, 1997 Edition: 2Description: 423 pContent type:

texto

Media type:

no mediado

Carrier type:

volumen

ISBN:

0713159537

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

942.052 E25

Contents:

1. The Call for Reform2. The King in his Youth3. The Great Cardinal4. Wolsey: Ascendancy and decline5. Divorce and Confusion6. The Battle for Control7. The Age of Reform8. The Royal Supremacy9. Consolidation and Commonwealth10. The End of the Monasteries11. The First Crisis of the Reformation12. Cromwell´s Rule and End13. The Rule of King Henry15. The Crisis of Reform16. The Seymour Ascendancy17. The Protestant Reformation18. Counter-Reformation and Reform19. Bibliography20. index

Abstract: Englishmen greeted the accession to the throne of Henry VIII with more than the usual chorus of praise and anticipation, yet few offered any solution to the problems of the commonwealth or expected more than the maintenance of a precarious stability. Half a century later, however, his daughter Elizabeth inherited a realm which had experienced a revolution. Reform, not a dream but a rational prospect, had become the spirit of the age; it also provides the theme for this remarkable history of the reigns of Henry, Edward and Mary.In his eloquent narrative, Professor Elton gives a new dimension to the familiar events and personalities of the period, probing the motives of individuals and the beliefs of the people as a whole. Heroes are debunked - Henry himself, for instance, emerges as ´a shallow, capricious, self-righteous, immensely powerful egoist- and traditional rogues like Northumberland are vindicated. At the same time, this panorama of Tudor politics and society affords a full analysis of foreign policy, the Church, political thought, the economy and, in particular, the complex changes in the body politic of England. Here it was the vision and tenacity of Thomas Cromwell which promoted a revolution in the kingdom and a transformation of the nation in every aspect of its life.

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Englishmen greeted the accession to the throne of Henry VIII with more than the usual chorus of praise and anticipation, yet few offered any solution to the problems of the commonwealth or expected more than the maintenance of a precarious stability. Half a century later, however, his daughter Elizabeth inherited a realm which had experienced a revolution. Reform, not a dream but a rational prospect, had become the spirit of the age; it also provides the theme for this remarkable history of the reigns of Henry, Edward and Mary.In his eloquent narrative, Professor Elton gives a new dimension to the familiar events and personalities of the period, probing the motives of individuals and the beliefs of the people as a whole. Heroes are debunked - Henry himself, for instance, emerges as ´a shallow, capricious, self-righteous, immensely powerful egoist- and traditional rogues like Northumberland are vindicated. At the same time, this panorama of Tudor politics and society affords a full analysis of foreign policy, the Church, political thought, the economy and, in particular, the complex changes in the body politic of England. Here it was the vision and tenacity of Thomas Cromwell which promoted a revolution in the kingdom and a transformation of the nation in every aspect of its life.

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