Early Tudor Government: Volume 2, Henry VIII

The second volume of a two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII.

Kenneth Pickthorn (Author)

9781107492745, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2015

580 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3.3 cm, 0.88 kg

Originally published in 1934, this is the second volume of Kenneth Pickthorn's two-volume assessment of the constitutional impact made by the first two Tudor kings, Henry VII and Henry VIII. This book contains Pickthorn's study of Henry VIII's reign, beginning with the rise and fall of Wolsey, and focuses primarily on the ways in which Henry's tumultuous reign affected the structures of British government for centuries to come. Carefully researched and fluently written, this text will be of value to anyone with an interest in sixteenth-century British government or the history of the British constitution.

1. Beginning of the reign, and rise of Wolsey
2. Council
3. Risks of disorder - enclosures, aliens, dynastic-feudal, opinion
4. Taxation, and early parliaments
5. Fidei defensor
6. The legatine court
7. Church and state
8. The fall of Wolsey
9. Supremacy and administration
10. Supremacy, and parliament, and the Aragon marriage
11. Cranmer, Boleyn, Barton
12. Parliament, supremacy, succession, treason
13. Cranmer, Fisher, More, Kildare, Carthusians
14. Monasteries suppressed, Anne beheaded, Roman authority extinguished
15. The decisive campaign, the pilgrimage of grace, Lincolnshire
16. The decisive campaign, the pilgrimage of grace, Yorkshire
17. The decisive campaign, the pilgrimage of grace, results
18. Dissolution of the monasteries
19. Budget, and dogma, and dynasty
20. Cromwell's last parliament
21. Bishops and heretics, council, Ferrers
22. Parties political and ecclesiastical
23. The end
List of authorities
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]