Henry VIII, Rebellion and The Rule of Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957376 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven G Ellis (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 513-531 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00022494 |
| OpenAlex | W2126775576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 18 |
It has been traditional to regard the reaction of Henry VIII in the face of treason and rebellion as savage and extreme. Perhaps for this reason, historians for long considered it superfluous to examine in any detail what fate actually befell those who took up arms against their king. More recently, however, findings that relatively few persons were executed by Henry, despite the savagery of his reign, and that in general his bark was worse than his bite,1 have suggested that this question could profitably be pursued further. There seems, for instance, to be a significant difference between the 178 executions in the aftermath of the Lincolnshire rebellion and the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536–7 and the rather larger number for which Elizabeth was responsible following the much less dangerous Northern Rising of 1569.2 Yet how these figures were achieved and what considerations shaped and determined the extent of the government's retaliation is much less clear. Perhaps the surviving evidence will not normally admit of answers to such questions, for it was not in the government's interests to disclose that external considerations might influence the enforcement or otherwise of the law. The manifestation of this fact was therefore inconvenient, but exceptionally such disclosures might be unavoidable
Ancient history · Enforcement · Face (sociological concept · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Reign · Sociology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
Historiographical debate
Nationalism and historical scholarship in modern Ireland
Rethinking early‐modern colonialism
The Butler revolt of 1569
Ordinary Violence? I reland as Emergency in the T udor State
Richard Roose and the use of Parliamentary Attainder in the Reign of Henry VIII
Policy and police
Reform and Reformation
Was there a Tudor Despotism after all
The Early Interpretation of Poynings’ Law, 1494-1534
The opposition to the ecclesiastical legislation in the Irish reformation parliament
Tudor policy and the Kildare ascendancy in the lordship of Ireland, 1496-1534
The King's Council of the North
The Beginnings of Modern Ireland
The Kildare Rebellion and the Early Henrician Reformation
Thomas Cromwell and Ireland, 1532–1540
The Tudor Law of Treason
A new history of Ireland
Cromwellian Reform and the origins of the Kildare Rebellion, 1533–34
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2014 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |