The Reign of Henry VIII

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Diarmaid MacCulloch

   Pages 1-11

3. Henry VIII: the Political Perspective

   • Eric Ives

   Pages 13-34

4. Thomas Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and the Reform of Henrician Government

   • John Guy

   Pages 35-57

5. The Progresses of Henry VIII, 1509–1529

   • Neil Samman

   Pages 59-73

6. War and Public Finance

   • Richard Hoyle

   Pages 75-99

7. Foreign Policy

   • David Potter

   Pages 101-133

8. The Literature and Propaganda of Henry VIII’s First Divorce

   • Virginia Murphy

   Pages 135-158

9. Henry VIII and the Reform of the Church

   • Diarmaid MacCulloch

   Pages 159-180

10. Literature, Drama and Politics

    • Seymour Baker House

    Pages 181-201

11. Local Responses to the Henrician Reformation

    • Robert Whiting

    Pages 203-226

12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-313

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This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers in early Tudor studies provides an up-to-date discussion of the politics, policy and piety of Henry VIII's reign. It explores such areas as the reform of central and local government, foreign policy, relations between leading politicians, life at Court, Henry's first divorce and the break with Rome, literature and the government's exploitation of it, and the growth of evangelical religion in Henry's England. Particular consideration is given to the controversies which have arisen about the reign among modern historians, and there is an effort to assess the personality of Henry himself.

• Cromwell
• England
• growth
• propaganda
• reformation
• Thomas Cromwell

• Totterdown, Bristol, UK

  Diarmaid MacCulloch

DIARMAID MACCULLOCH has held Research Fellowships from Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Leverhulme and Wingate Trusts. He lectures in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies in Bristol University and also writes and lectures independently.

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