The Last Tudor Great Councils
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pablo Holmes (The Sixth Form College Colchester, corresponding author), P J Holmes |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| 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/s0018246x00013078 |
| OpenAlex | W2317870363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
Henry VII called a number of Great Councils, as his predecessors had for at least two centuries before. Evidence has survived for five such Councils, held in 1487, 1488, 1491, 1496 and 1502. They advised the king on important matters of foreign policy and internal security, with the result that diplomatic and military action was taken and taxes were levied. They each lasted for perhaps two or three weeks, and were attended by lords spiritual and temporal, royal officials, and – on two occasions – by the elected representatives of boroughs. In three cases they coincided with meetings of the clergy in Convocation. Henry VII also held major sessions of his ‘ordinary’ council, lasting for several days at a time, sometimes for over two weeks, and attended by between twenty and sixty people; such large assemblies had been named ‘Great Councils’ in previous reigns, although under Henry VII this does not seem to have been the case. By the end of the Tudor period, by 1603, there is little question that both types of political assembly had disappeared; both the quasi-parliamentary Great Councils and the conciliar ‘Great Councils’. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to determine when this disappearance occurred and to offer some tentative suggestions as to how it happened and with what political consequences
Action (physics · Art · Foreign policy · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Public Administration · Scottish History and National Identity
The Religious Orders in England
Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government
The Statement of the Baghdad Pact Council
The Place of the Council in the Fifteenth Century
Presidential Address
The Painful Labour of Mr. Elsyng
Parliamentary History in Perspective, 1604–1629
The ‘Letters and Papers of Henry VIII’
The Great Council in the Reign of Henry VII
The Sermon against the Holy Maid of Kent and her Adherents, delivered at Paul's Cross, November the 23rd, 1533, and at Canterbury, December the 7th
I. Attendance in the House of Lords during the Reign of Henry VIII
Parliament in the Sixteenth Century
I. Henry VII's Last Years Reconsidered
Select Cases in the Council of Henry VII
The Problem of the Attendance of the Lords in Medieval Parliaments
Les Conseils collatéraux des Anciens Pays-Bas (1531- 1794)
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2021 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |