Kingship and politics in the reign of Edward VI
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Author
Publication
2002 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3950706M
- Internet Archivekingshippolitics00alfo
- ISBN-100521660556
- ISBN-139780521660556
- LibraryThing6067299
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001043603
- OCLC Control Number47989874
- Better World Books9780521660556
- Better World BooksP8-DFC-960
Classifications
- DDC942.05/3
- LCCDA345 .A45 2002
Description
This book offers a reappraisal of the kingship and politics of the reign of Edward VI, the third Tudor king of England who reigned from the age of nine in 1547 until his death in 1553. The reign has often been interpreted as a period of political instability, mainly because of Edward's age, but this account challenges the view that the king's minority was a time of political faction. It shows how Edward was shaped and educated from the start for adult kingship, and how Edwardian politics evolved to accommodate a maturing and able young king. The book also explores the political values of the men around the king, and tries to reconstruct the relationships of family and association that bound together the governing elite in the king's Council, his court, and in the universities. It also, importantly, assesses the impact of Edward's reign on Elizabethan politics.
First Sentence
If no man had written the goodnesse of noble Augustus, nor the pitie of mercifull Trajan, how shoulde their successours have folowed ther steppes in vertue and princely qualities: on the contrarie parte, if the crueltie of Nero, the ungracious life of Caligula had not beene put in remembrance, young Princes and fraile governors might likewise have fallen in a like pit, but by redyng their vices and seyng their mischeveous ende, thei bee compelled to leave their evill waies, and embrace the good qualities of notable princes and prudent governours: Thus, writyng is the keye to enduce vertue, and represse vice, Thus memorie maketh menne ded many a thousande yere still to live as though thei were present: Thus Fame triumpheth upon death, and renounce upon Oblivion, and all by reason of writyng and historie.
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- Biography
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