The King's Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church

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"Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the hands of manipulative factions. Henry is revealed instead as the determining mover of religious policy throughout this momentous period." "From the beginning of his campaign to secure a divorce from Catherine of Aragon that led him to break with Rome, Henry's strategy, as Professor Bernard shows, was more consistent and more radical than
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"Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the hands of manipulative factions. Henry is revealed instead as the determining mover of religious policy throughout this momentous period." "From the beginning of his campaign to secure a divorce from Catherine of Aragon that led him to break with Rome, Henry's strategy, as Professor Bernard shows, was more consistent and more radical than historians have allowed. Henry refused to introduce Lutheranism, but rather harnessed the rhetoric of the continental reformation in support of his royal supremacy. Convinced that the church needed urgent reform, in particular the purging of superstition and idolatry, Henry's dissolution of the monasteries and the dismantling of the shrines were much more than a venal attempt to raise money. The King sought a middle way between Rome and Zurich, between Catholicism and its associated superstitions on one hand and the subversive radicalism of the reformers on the other." With a ruthlessness that verged on tyranny, Henry VIII determined the pace of change in twenty years fundamental to England's religious development.
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“Big, erudite, trenchant and readable, this is a masterpiece drawing on decades of research and reflection, and a work of international scholarly importance.”—Ralph Houlbrooke, University of Reading
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Bernard (history, Univ. of Southampton, England; Power and Politics in Tudor England) calls into question the view long held by historians that Henry VIII was a weak king manipulated by his counselors into breaking with Rome and grabbing up the wealth of the Church in England. Bernard reassesses the written material on the break with Rome, showing that Henry got what he wanted by controlling opposition and manipulating his supporters. Henry wanted a male heir with Anne Boleyn, but he also wanted to reform the Church-though he did not support Martin Luther's or Ulrich Zwingli's ideas. In his conclusion, Bernard writes, "So successfully did Henry maintain his `deniability' that many historians have been taken in." His book, presenting a king firmly in charge of religious policy, strongly supports this thesis, with numerous quotes and an extensive bibliography. Recommended for academic, theological, and public libraries.-Br. Benet Exton, St. Gregory's Univ., Shawnee, OK Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300109085
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 11/10/2005
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 672
  • Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 6.60 (h) x 2.50 (d)

Table of Contents

1 The divorce 1
2 Opposition 73
3 Authority and reform 225
4 Rebellion and conspiracy 293
5 The final suppression of the monasteries 433
6 The making of religious policy 475
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