Politics and political history in the tudor century

Historical Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 535-548

  Alford, Stephen ^a  

^a FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 68749094626     PISSN: 0018246X     EISSN: 14695103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X99008547     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Patrick Collinson, ‘De republica Anglorum: or, history with the politics put back’, in his Elizabethan essays (London and Rio Grande, 1994), pp. 1–29.
2. John Guy, ed. The Tudor monarchy (London, 1997), pp. 1–8.
3. It should be emphasized that this is a limited selection of key studies: Margaret Aston, The king's bedpost: reformation and iconography in a Tudor portrait group (Cambridge, 1993)
4. Collinson, Elizabethan essays
5. Steven Ellis, Tudor frontiers and noble power: the making of the British state (Oxford, 1995)
6. S.J. Gunn, Early Tudor government, 1485–1558 (Basingstoke and London, 1995)
7. John Guy, ‘Tudor monarchy and its critiques’, in Guy, ed. Tudor monarchy, pp. 78–109
8. Dale Hoak, ed. Tudor political culture (Cambridge, 1995)
9. Markku Peltonen, Classical humanism and republicanism in English political thought, 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1995)
10. J. G. A. Pocock, ed., The varieties of British political thought, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 1993)
11. Quentin Skinner, Reason and rhetoric in the philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge, 1996)
12. David Starkey, ed., The English court: from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War (London, 1987)
13. Maurizio Viroli, From politics to reason of state: the acquisition and transformation of the language of politics, 1250–1600 (Cambridge, 1992).
14. For example, A. F. Pollard, The evolution of parliament (London, 1920), especially pp. 166–186
15. J. E. Neale, ‘The Commons’ privilege of free speech in parliament’, in R. W. Seton-Watson, ed., Tudor studies (London, 1924), pp. 257–286.
16. For a statement of Elton's position on Neale, see G. R. Elton, ‘Parliament’, in Christopher Haigh, ed., The reign of Elizabeth I (London and Basingstoke, 1984), pp. 79–100.
17. G. R. Elton, ed., The Tudor constitution: documents and commentary (Cambridge, 1960; 2nd edn 1982).
18. K. B. McFarlane, The nobility of later medieval England (Oxford, 1997 edn), p. 280
19. a quotation employed by Steven Gunn in his illuminating discussion of the historiographical inheritances of Elton and McFarlane: Gunn, Early Tudor government, pp. 2–5.
20. Penry Williams, The Tudor regime (Oxford, 1979), p. vii.
21. Christopher Coleman and David Starkey, eds., Revolution reassessed: revisions in the history of Tudor government and administration (Oxford, 1986).
22. John Guy, ‘Thomas Cromwell and the intellectual origins of the Henrician revolution’, in Alastair Fox and John Guy, Reassessing the Henrician age: humanism, politics, and reform (Oxford, 1986), pp. 151–178
23. reprinted in Guy, ed., Tudor monarchy, pp. 213–233
24. G. R. Elton, ‘The Tudor revolution: a reply’, Past and Present, 29 (1964), pp. 28–42
25. G. L. Harriss, ‘A revolution in Tudor history?’ Past and Present, 31 (1965), pp. 87–90
26. G. D. Nicholson, ‘The nature and function of historical argument in the Henrician reformation’ (Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge, 1977).
27. V. M. Murphy, ‘The debate over Henry VIII's first divorce: an analysis of the contemporary treatises’ (Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge, 1984)
28. Graham Nicholson, ‘The Act of Appeals and the English Reformation’, in Claire Cross, David Loades, and J. J. Scarisbrick, eds., Law and government under the Tudors (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 19–30
29. Virginia Murphy, ‘The literature and propaganda of Henry VIII's first divorce’, in Diarmaid MacCulloch, ed., The reign of Henry VIII: politics, policy and piety (London and Basingstoke, 1995), pp. 135–158.
30. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, sixth series, 7 (1997), pp. 177–336.
31. David Loades, Tudor government (Oxford, 1997).
32. Elton, ed., Tudor constitution, pp. 462–482.
33. John Watts, Henry VI and the politics of kingship (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 1–9, 13–14
34. Christine Carpenter, Locality and polity: a study of Warwickshire landed society, 1401–1499 (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 1–13
35. Christine Carpenter, The Wars of the Roses: politics and the constitution, c. 1437–1509 (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 6–26.
36. John Guy, ‘The rhetoric of counsel in early modern England’, in Hoak, ed., Tudor political culture, pp. 292–310.
37. For a sketch of the ‘politically fluid and culturally polycentric’ nature of the Elizabethan court, see John Guy, ‘The 1590s: the second reign of Elizabeth I?’ in John Guy, ed., The reign of Elizabeth I: court and culture in the last decade (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 1–2.
38. Stephen Alford, The early Elizabethan polity: William Cecil and the British succession crisis, 1558–1569 (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 10–14.
39. Michael Bush, The pilgrimage of grace: a study of the rebel armies of October 1536 (Manchester, 1996).
40. M. H. Dodds and R. Dodds, The pilgrimage of grace, 1536–1537 (2 vols, Cambridge, 1915).
41. For an account of the discussion of the regime in 1536, and particularly the debate on Henry's council, see John Guy, ‘The king's council and political participation’, in Fox and Guy, Reassessing the Henrician age, pp. 121–147.
42. The regime defended itself in print in the Answere made by the kynges hyghnes to the Petitions of the rebelles in Yorkeshire (London, 1536), which included a detailed discussion of men appointed to the council: sigs. A4r-A5v.
43. David Sandler Berkowitz, ed., Humanist scholarship and public order: two tracts against the pilgrimage of grace by Sir Richard Morison (Washington, DC, 1984), pp. 117–118.
44. David Loades, John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, 1504–1553 (Oxford, 1996).
45. Particularly (for this period) Simon Adams, ‘The Dudley clientèle, 1553–1563’, in G. W. Bernard, ed., The Tudor nobility (Manchester and New York, 1992), pp. 241–265.
46. A message sent by the kynges Majestie, to certain of his people, assembled in Devonshire (n.p., 1549), sig. B5r; John Hooper, An oversight, and deliberacion upon the holy Prophete Jonas (London, [1550])
47. Sir John Cheke, The hurt of sedicion (London, 1549), sig. F3r.
48. Dale E. Hoak, ‘The king's privy chamber, 1547–1553’, in Delloyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna, eds., Tudor rule and revolution (Cambridge, 1982), pp. 87–108; quotations at p. 88.
49. W. K. Jordan, Edward VI: the threshold of power. The dominance of the duke of Northumberland (London, 1970), pp. 532–535
50. D. E. Hoak, The king's council in the reign of Edward VI (Cambridge, 1976), pp. 120–125.
51. British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian F 13 fo. 273r-v, printed in J. G. Nichols, ed., Literary remains of King Edward VI (2 vols., Roxburghe Club, London, 1857), 11, pp. 489–490.
52. British Library, Cotton MS Nero C 10 fo. 11r, printed in W. K. Jordan, ed., Chronicle and political papers of King Edward VI (London, 1966), p. 3.
53. Skinner, Reason and rhetoric, pp. 19–110.
54. Patrick Collinson, ‘Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Elizabethan via media’, Historical Journal, 23 (1980), pp. 257–262.
55. Alford, Early Elizabethan polity, pp. 16–20.
56. British Library, Cotton MS Nero C 10 fo. 73r-v.
57. Seth Lerer, Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII: literary culture and the arts of deceit (Cambridge, 1997).
58. Roger Ascham, English works, ed. William Aldis Wright (Cambridge, 1904), pp. 125–126.
59. Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, “‘Studied for action”: how Gabriel Harvey read his Livy’, Past and Present, 129 (1990), pp. 30–78.
60. For example, David Starkey, ‘Representation through intimacy: a study in the symbolism of monarchy and court office in early modern England’, in Guy, ed., Tudor monarchy, pp. 42–78.
61. S. B. Chrimes, English constitutional ideas in the fifteenth century (Cambridge, 1936), p. 175.
62. Edward Hall, The union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre & Yorke (London, 1550), Henry VIII, sig. A1. For the significance of the effigy in French royal funerals
63. see Ralph E. Giesey, The royal funeral ceremony in renaissance France (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 37, Geneva, 1960), pp. 79–124.
64. Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The king's two bodies: a study in mediaeval political theology (Princeton, 1957), pp. 24–41.
65. Normal Jones, The birth of the Elizabethan age: England in the 156os (Oxford, 1993).
66. Patrick Collinson, ‘The monarchical republic of Queen Elizabeth I’, in Guy, ed., Tudor monarchy, p. 113
67. Guy, ‘Tudor monarchy and its critiques’, p. 94.
68. Patrick Collinson, ‘The Elizabethan exclusion crisis and the Elizabethan polity’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 84 (1995), pp. 51–92
69. Alford, Early Elizabethan polity, pp. 209–222
70. Guy, ‘The 1590s’, pp. 1–19.
71. Collinson, ‘Monarchical republic’, p. 119.
72. Alford, Early Elizabethan polity, pp. 103–19, 142–57.
73. British Library, Cotton MS Titus B 2 fos. 85r-9or
74. He seems to have completed three written discussions, all of which survive in British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian D 18: ‘Wheather it be expedient to varie with tyme’ (fos. 2r-11v)
75. ‘What Princes Amitie is best’ (fos. i2r-i9r); and ‘Wheather it be better for a common wealthe, that the power be in the nobilitie or in the commonaltie’ (fos. 20r-7v).
76. ‘Wheather it be better for a common wealthe, that the power be in the nobilitie or in the commonaltie’, fos. 20r-7v.
77. Principally S.J. Gunn, ‘The courtiers of Henry VII’, English Historical Review, 108 (1993), pp. 23–49
78. reprinted in Guy, ed., Tudor monarchy, pp. 163–189.