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Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII

By Thomas Mayer

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
0521361044, 9780521361040
LCC
BR350.S7 M39 1989
Open Library ID
OL2048697M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8548568 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Pages
326\326
Topic
Religion
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. Beginning with his native Cheshire, it traces his career through Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal. Most of Starkey's career revolved around his patron Reginald Pole, scion of the highest nobility, but Starkey (and many other Englishmen) managed to balance loyalty to Pole with allegiance to Henry VIII. Out of favour with the king's secretary after the middle of 1536, Starkey turned increasingly to religion, continuing to cling to his conciliarist and Italian Evangelical opinions until his death.

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