The King's Reformation
Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16611515 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Pfaff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1229-1230 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20478744 |
| OpenAlex | W1534089040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
Henry VIII's reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the hands of manipulative factions. Henry, a monarch who ruled as well as reigned, is revealed instead as the determining mover of religious policy throughout this momentous period. In Henry's campaign to secure a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which led him to break with Rome, his strategy, as Bernard shows, was more consistent and more radical than historians have allowed. Henry refused to introduce Lutheranism, but rather harnessed the rhetoric of the continental reformation in support of his royal supremacy. Convinced that the church needed urgent reform, in particular the purging of superstition and idolatry, Henry's dissolution of the monasteries and the dismantling of the shrines were much more than a venal attempt to raise money. The king sought a middle way between Rome and Zurich, between Catholicism and its associated superstitions on one hand and the subversive radicalism of the reformers on the other. With a ruthlessness that verged on tyranny, Henry VIII determined the pace of change in the most important twenty years of England's religious development
Art · English Reformation · Protestantism · Theology · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI
A queenly affinity? Catherine of Aragon's estates and Henry VIII's Great Matter
Penitence, preachers and politics 1533-47
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Carthusian Preaching Materials
Henry VIII, Shakespeare, and the Jacobean Royal Court
Saints in Exile
The Transformation of Sodomy from the Renaissance to the Modern World and Its General Sexual Consequences
Bishops, dioceses and cathedrals
Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Presentation of the Henrician Reformation in his Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth
Henry VIII, Francis I and the Reformation Parliament
A Peru of Their Own
The Execution of ‘Rebel’ Priests in the Western Rising of 1549
Canterbury as the New Rome
Thomas Becket, William Warham and the Crisis of the Early Tudor Church
Katherine of Aragon and the Veil
Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Henry VIII
(Re)defining the English Reformation
Negotiating Heresy in Tudor England
Secularization and Modernization
The Religion of Henry Viii
William Tyndale, Henry Viii, and the Obedience of a Christian Man
Controversial Terminology
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |