Henry VIII and the English Nobility

In the last half dozen years or so the nobility of Tudor and early Stuart England has made a strong comeback in published scholarship.In the genre of political history alone, studies of several specific peers and of the House of Lords in both the mid-Tudor and the early Stuart periods have greatly enhanced our understanding of this group.Now Helen Miller has given us the first full length investigation of the relations between the nobility and the Crown in the reign of Henry VIII.Miller tells us that the English peerage had good reason for optimism in the early years of the new reign despite its numerical depletion.Young Henry quickly removed many of the oppressive burdens imposed on the peerage by his father, cancelling recognizances and bonds, reversing some attainders, and conspicuously punishing those two most notorious officials, the com

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