“To Assyst the Ordynaryes”
Why Thomas More Agreed to Become Chancellor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Iver Kaufman (0000-0002-6446-1506, University of Richmond, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 (Number 174) |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-192 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2008.45.2.9 |
| OpenAlex | W225689418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Revisionists’ explanations for Thomas More’s willingness to serve as Chancellor have him scheming to support the Aragonese faction at Court--or conspiring with Hapsburg agents to revive papal influence in England in the wake of Campeggio’s departure and Wolsey’s “fall.” In late 1529, More was obviously concerned with lay disaffection, troubled by the prospect that sectarian dissidents might capitalize on it to reform the church recklessly, and confident that the realm’s bishops, assisted by the government, could outmaneuver the critics of Roman and English Catholicism, whose arguments for an alternative ecclesiology and soteriology he had opposed earlier that year. “To Assyst” presents More’s concern and confidence as a more plausible answer to the question in its title, more plausible than rival responses on offer
Bishops · Ecclesiology · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Realm · Sociology · Soteriology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2016 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |