336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the norms and values of Tudor and early-Stuart politics, which are considered in the contexts of law and the Reformation, legal and administrative institutions, and classical and legal humanism. Main themes include 'imperial' monarchy and the theory of 'counsel', Parliament and the royal supremacy, conciliar politics and organization, the relationship of law and equity, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: The development of equitable jurisdictions, 1450-1550; A conciliar court of audit at work in the last months of the reign of Henry VII; Wolsey's Star Chamber: a study in archival reconstruction; Wolsey, the Council and the council courts; Wolsey and the Parliament of 1523; Thomas More as successor to Wolsey; Henry VIII and the praemunire manoeuvres of 1530-31; Thomas More and Christopher St German: the Battle of the Books; The Tudor commonwealth: revising Thomas Cromwell; The Privy Council: revolution or evolution?; The King's Council and political participation; The Henrician age; The Elizabethan establishment and the ecclesiastical polity; The rhetoric of counsel in early modern England; The origins of the petition of right reconsidered; Index.
Biography
John Guy
'This publication in a convenient and user-friendly format of fifteen essays written by Professor Guy over the past quarter century is to be welcomed....the usefulness of the volume lies...in the opportunity it provides to consider Guy's contribution to Tudor and Stuart history to date...The fact that these essays make us think hard about particular personalites and events, while at the same time offering an overall vision of the high politics of the century between the break from Rome and the outbreak of the civil war, is proof enough of their value.' Reviews in History.
