Thomas Cromwell Machiavellian statecraft and the English Reformation /

• Main Author: Coby, Patrick, 1948-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.
• Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas, > Earl of Essex, > 1485?-1540.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527 > Influence.; Cabinet officers > Biography. > Great Britain; Statesmen > Biography. > Great Britain; Reformation > England.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.; HISTORY.; Great Britain > Biography. > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547; Great Britain > Biography. > Politics and government > 1509-1547; England > Church history > 16th century.; Electronic books.
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Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served as minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, the period during which more political and religious reform was accomplished than at any other time in Henry's thirty-seven-year reign. Thus t.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Thomas Cromwell and the sixteenth century
• Sources : Marsilius and Machiavelli
• The pre-ministerial years
• Henrician England
• To Parliament and the court
• The Reformation Parliament
• The fall of Anne Boleyn
• Rebellion
• Henrician protestantism and the return to orthodoxy
• Matrimonial diplomacy
• The fall of Thomas Cromwell
• Conclusion : Cromwell, the man and the record.