William Rockett

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ID2478690
NOMBREWilliam Rockett
NOMBRESWilliam
APELLIDORockett
FIRMAROCKETT W
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1971
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
ÍNDICE H0

  • Juristic Theology in More’s Polemics

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLEMoreana2014

    Thomas More built his opposition to reform on a foundation of canon law because he believed the offenses of the reformers fell within the spiritual jurisdiction rather than the temporal; that these offenses were by right adjudicated in the church courts, not the Crown courts; and that the supreme authority in cases of unlawful theological innovation was not that of English kings but that of popes and councils. This paper’s argument is that the ca…

  • Tyranny

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLEMoreana2012

    Thomas More may or may not have been a victim of Henry VIII’s tyrannical vengeance, but what is certain is that he was indeed a victim of a constitutional revolution. He would not allow himself to subordinate loyalty to the Church to loyalty to the Crown, and the Crown would not allow him to maintain loyalty to the Church if it meant making the Church his highest allegiance and the Crown subordinate. More’s options were to endorse either royal so…

  • Historical Topography and British History in Camden's Britannia

    William RockettARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2009

    Oritain acquired a national history only after its coherence as a territorial entity had been established, and these two components of the national identityterritorial and historical definition -were products of the Tudor era. Cromwell reordered England's constitution by cutting off Rome's entitlement to English taxes and then building a program of reform on the related concepts of national sovereignty and the imperial status of the Crown. ^These…

  • The Case against Thomas More

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

    When Thomas More resigned the office of chancellor in May of 1532, he departed from the government with the understanding that he would refrain from aiding or encouraging opponents of royal policy. This pledge was honored, but when events late in 1533 propelled Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, into prominence, More was not able to avoid the consequences of his association with her and became suspect of treason under provisions of new legislatio…

  • Wolsey, More, and the Unity of Christendom

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2004

    An irony of Thomas Wolsey's fall and, soon thereafter, of Thomas More's resignation of the chancellorship is that, in using the office of chancellor to advance and defend the interests of Catholic orthodoxy, first Wolsey and then More was defeated by the contradictory demands of a king who aspired to be a faithful son of the church yet imperial in his own realm.Wolsey was ruined in the futile endeavor of obtaining the annulment that the king desi…

  • Collected Works

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2001

    Elizabeth I, Collected Works. Eds. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xxiv + 446pp. incl. 18 illus. $40. ISBN: 0-226-50464-6. - Volume 54 Issue 2

  • Temporal and Spiritual

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLEMoreana2000

    In spite of the recent modest interest in Christopher St. German, we have little to go on when contemplating the beginning of his career in controversy at about the time of the second session of the Reformation Parliament. However, a work that has gone almost unnoticed by students of St. German’s role in Cromwellian reform is a set of proposals for parliamentary authority in spiritual matters that were appended to the 1531 editions of A dyaloge i…

  • Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster 1543-1609. Part 2 1560-1609

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2000

  • Britannia, Ralph Brooke, and the Representation of Privilege in Elizabethan England

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2000Referencias: 2

    The fourth edition of Britannia (1594) contained a marked increase in the representation of the propertied classes. The names of landowners, new families as well as old, were increased by approximately three hundred over the third edition of 1590. The fourth edition also contained a new index — “Barones et lllustriores Familiae” — which, together with the new names, registered first Camden's awareness of the changing character of Elizabethan soci…

  • Words Written and Words Inspired

    Open AccessWilliam RockettARTICLEMoreana1999

    The main features of More’s position on Luther’s doctrine of evident scripture and Tyndale’s deployment of it are familiar to students of More’s controversial works: adherence to scripture alone defies the gospel promise of Christ’s perpetual presence in the Church; it defies the Church’s authority, and it renounces the prophecy in Jeremiah 31:33 of a new covenant to be written not in books but in men’s hearts. These assertions appear repeatedly …

  • Thomas More

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999

  • Great Political Thinkers 6

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1999

  • The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998

  • The Structural Plan of Camden's Britannia

    William RockettARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1995

  • Donne's libertine rhetoric∗

    William RockettARTICLEEnglish Studies1971