Henry VIII and the English Reformation
Abandoning the traditional narrative approach to its subject, this book presents an analytical account which aims to reflect the logic of the conditions, events, and policies of Henry's brief Reformation. It starts with the fundamental question of the roy
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HENRY VIII ANDTHE ENGLISH REFORMATION RICHARDREX
Macmillan Education
ISBN 978-0-333-56749-4 ISBN 978-1-349-22586-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22586-6 © Richard Rex 1993
Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1993 All rights reserved. For infonnation, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St, Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of Arnerlca in 1993 ISBN 978-0-312-08665-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-312-08664-0 (pbk.) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rex, Richard. Henry VIII and the English Reformation / Richard Rex . p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-08665-7. - ISBN 978-0-312-08664-0 (pbk.) 1. Great Brltain-History-Henry VIII, 1509-1547. 2. Henry VIII, King ofEngland, 1491-1547. 3. Refonnation-England. I. Tide. II. Tide: Henry the 8th and the English Reformation. III. Tide: Henry the Eighth and the English Reformation. IV. Series, DA332 .R48 1993 92-25105 942 .05'2---dc20 CIP
Ta Bettina
Se quanta infina a qui di lei si dice fasse canchiusa tutta in una lada, paca sarebbe a farnir questa vice. (Dante, Paradiso xxx, ll. 16-18)
CONTENTS
viii
Preface Introduction
1
1
Divorce and Supremacy
6
2
Church and Crown
38
3
Popular Religion
72
4
Verna cular Religious Cu ltu re
104
5
Doctrinal Division
133
Con clus io n
167
No tes
176
Bibliography
190
Index
201
vii
PREFACE
The debts that authors incur in writing a short survey of this kind are if anything more extensive than those incurred in writing a lengthy monograph. For they must plunder shamelessly from the publications of rivals, colleagues, and predecessors in an attempt to paint a picture which is complete in outline , though not exhaustive in detail; careful in judgement, though not cautious to the point of triviality; and thought-provoking, though not thoughtlessly provocative. Within the inevitable constraints of space I have endeavoured to acknowledge my debts in the notes, but this is a suitable place to emphasise that anything which may be found of value in this study should be attributed not so much to the author as to that community of scholars whose collective researches over the past forty years have cast so much new light on the events here described. It is to the works of these scholars, listed in the bibliography, that readers should go for a fuller understanding of the Henrician Reformation and for other perspectives on it. I should however like to acknowledge a particular debt to those who have generously given time and thought to reading and commenting on drafts of this book: my wife Bettina, who has helped me stick at the task through a difficult year, and to whom the book is gratefully dedicated; my former research supervisor, Brendan Bradshaw, whose contribution can only be appreciated by those who, like me, have experience of the acute and perceptive eye he brings to any text; to the anonymous reader appointed by the publisher to go over the typescript, who will I hope viii
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