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Henry VIII and the Reformation of Parliament

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Description for Henry VIII and the Reformation of Parliament Paperback. Part of the Reacting to the Past series, Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament transforms students into lords and commoners and members of the English Parliament during the tumultuous years 1529-36. Series: Reacting to the Past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 336 x 24. Weight in Grams: 466.

Cardinal Wolsey has just been dismissed as Lord Chancellor for failing to obtain an annulment of King Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Thomas More is named as Wolsey’s replacement. More presides over Parliament, which the king hopes will somehow find the means to invalidate his marriage, thus freeing him to marry his new love, Lady Anne Boleyn. Apart from matters of the heart, matters of state also apply, for Henry has no male heir to carry on the Tudor line, and Queen Catherine has passed her child-bearing years.

But will Parliament be content with solving the king’s marital and ... Read more

The king is ambivalent about the reformation unleashed by his "great matter," as the divorce campaign is called, and so the conservatives are free to prosecute reformers as heretics, while the reformers are free to prosecute conservatives as traitors. Victory is up for grabs, because the king’s party is in fact a coalition of three dissimilar factions whose members are further divided by personal ambitions and jealousies. At issue is the clash of four contending ideas: medieval Catholicism, Lutheranism, Renaissance humanism and Machiavellian statecraft.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Reacting to the Past
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393937299
SKU
V9780393937299
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-22

About John Patrick Coby
John Patrick Coby is professor of government at Smith College, where he teaches courses in political theory. He is the author of four books and of numerous scholarly articles and reviews. His books are Socrates and the Sophistic Enlightenment: A Commentary on Plato’s Protagoras; Machiavelli’s Romans: Liberty and Greatness in the Discourses on Livy; Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament; ... Read more

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