THE
HENRICIAN REFORMATION 1509‑1547
Legislation
in 1534
(1) Assess the significance of the Act of
Succession. How did the Act of Supremacy and other parliamentary statutes of
1534 affect the church and the papacy in England? (Nick)
(2) How important was the Treason Act of
1534? (Paul)
LP, VII
83, 121, 393.
English
Historical Documents, vol. v., pp. 741‑7 (clergy), 447‑52
(succession), 476‑9 (treason).
Statutes
of the Realm, iii. 460‑64 (annates), 471ff (succession), 492
(supremacy), 508‑9 (treason).
On the succession see M. Levine, Tudor
Dynastic Problems 1460‑1571 (1972) and his 'Henry VIII's use of
his spiritual and temporal jurisdictions', Historical Journal, x
(1967).
On supremacy etc. see S.E. Lehmberg, 'Supremacy
and vicegerency: a re‑examination', English Historical Review,
lxxx (1966) and M. Bowker, 'The supremacy and the episcopate: the struggle for
control, 1534‑1540', Historical Journal, xviii (1975).
On treason see G.R. Elton, Policy and
Police (1972), esp. chs. 6‑9; J.G. Bellamy, The Tudor Law
of Treason (1979): see important review by B. Bradshaw, Journal
of Ecclesiastical History, xxxi (1980) pp. 361‑5; P. Williams, The
Tudor Regime (1979).
On these subjects look also at S.E. Lehmberg, The
Reformation Parliament 1529‑1536 (1970); J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry
VIII (1968); G.R. Elton, Reform and Reformation (1977).
C.S.L. Davies, 'The Cromwellian Decade:
Authority and Consent', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,
6th series, vii (1997), pp. 177-96 is excellent on the impact of these laws.
Propaganda
(3) Assess Simon Fish, A Supplication for
the beggars, printed by F.J. Furnivall and J.M. Cowper, Four
Supplications 1529‑1533, Early English Text Society,
extra series, xiii (1871), and is STC 10883 (reel 40), as an anti‑clerical
diatribe; compare it with T. Lawler, G. Marc'hadour and R. Marius, eds., The
Complete Works of St Thomas More, vol.
vi (i), The supplication of souls, (1990) (also available in
microfilm: STC 18093 (reel 40) (dip into this). (Richard)
(4) Assess two documents discussed by S.W.
Haas, 'Martin Luther's "Divine Right" kingship and the royal
supremacy: two tracts from the 1531 parliament and the convocation of the
clergy', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, xxi (1980), pp. 317‑25,
and R. Rex, 'The crisis of obedience: God's word and Henry's reformation', Historical
Journal, xxxix (1996), pp. 863-94. The documents are printed in N.
Pocock, ed., Records of the Reformation (2 vols., 1870), ii.
100-3 (LP, VII 1607 item 6) and briefly LP, V 1022). (Becky)
(5) Assess
A glass of the truth, printed in N. Pocock, ed., Records
of the Reformation (2 vols., 1870), ii. 385‑421 from STC 11918
(reel 67) or 11919 (reel 50), and The determination of the most famous
and excellent universities of Italy and France, STC 14286 (reel 102)
and 14287 (reel 54), as propaganda. On the development of Henry VIII's case in
canon law, see V. Murphy, 'The Literature and Propaganda of Henry VIII's first
divorce' in D. MacCulloch, ed., The Reign of Henry VIII (1995), pp.
135-58. (Adam)
(6) How persuasive were defences of Catherine
of Aragon's cause, e.g. Thomas Abel, Invicta Veritas? (dip
into this: STC 61 (reel 20): cf. LP V 287. (Lucy)
(7) How effective are Articles devised by
the whole consent of the king's most honourable
council, Pocock, Records of the Reformation, ii. 523‑31,
and STC 9177 (reel 7), and A little treatise against the muttering of
some papists in corners, Pocock, ii. 539‑52, and STC 19177
(reel 122) as propaganda? (Georgina)
(8) Assess Christopher St German, Treatise
concerning the division between the spiritualitie and temporalitie, and
compare it with The Apologye of Sir Thomas More, both
printed in J.B. Trapp, ed., The Complete Works of St Thomas More, vol. ix.
(Josephine)
(9) How successful are Stephen Gardiner's
arguments in De vera obedientia?
(edited and translated by P. Janelle, Obedience in Church and State
(1930)). (Adam)
On propaganda in general see G.R. Elton, Policy
and Police (1972), ch. 4; J.K. McConica, English Humanists and
Reformation Politics under Henry VIII
and Edward VI (1965); W.G. Zeeveld,
Foundations of Tudor Policy (1948); R. Rex, 'The crisis of
obedience: God's word and Henry's reformation', Historical Journal,
xxxix (1996), pp. 863-94.
More specific studies are S.W. Haas, 'Henry
VIII's "Glass of Truth"', History, lxiv (1979), pp. 353‑62,
and 'Martin Luther's "Divine Right" kingship and the royal supremacy:
two tracts from the 1531 parliament and the convocation of the clergy', Journal
of Ecclesiastical History, xxi (1980), pp. 317‑25; on Fish see
W.A. Clebsch, England's earliest protestants (1964); comments
about the divorce may be elucidated by H.A. Kelly, The Matrimonial Trials
of Henry VIII (1976); on Catherine of Aragon see G. Mattingley, Catherine
of Aragon (1942) and M. Dowling, 'Humanist support for Katherine of
Aragon', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, lvii
(1984); on Christopher St German see J.A. Guy, 'The Tudor Commonwealth:
revising Thomas Cromwell', Historical Journal, xxiii (1980), pp.
681‑7, challenged by B. Bradshaw, Historical Journal,
(1981/2); The Public Career of Sir Thomas More (1980), pp. 151‑56;
Christopher St German on Chancery and Statute, Selden Society,
supplementary series, vi (1985); cf. G.W. Bernard, 'Politics and Government in
Tudor England', Historical Journal xxxi (1988), pp. 172‑76;
on Gardiner see C.D.C. Armstrong's review in Journal of Ecclesiastical
History, xliv (1993), pp. 309-11.