Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales
Life, Death and Commemoration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9737504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C S L Davies (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 517 |
| Pages | 1515-1517 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq312 |
| OpenAlex | W2314760943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Anybody hoping for much information about Prince Arthur, heir to Henry VII until his death, aged fifteen, in 1502, will be disappointed. This is not the fault of the contributors, but is due to the sheer paucity of the surviving information. Even Steven Gunn's gift for squeezing significant detail from unpromising documentation only results in ten pages on Arthur's ‘Preparation for Kingship’. He certainly received an intensive education. His tutor from the age of four was John Rede, previously headmaster of Winchester, joined in later years by, among others, the blind court-poet Bernard André. André claimed that Arthur had studied and even memorised a formidable list of classical works. Gunn is rightly sceptical about the reality behind André’s flattery, and also, less directly, about the supposed training for politics provided by classical literature. More to the point, from the age of seven Arthur resided in the Marches of Wales with his council, which was seriously engaged in government there and in Wales itself on the model set in Edward IV's reign for the Prince's council. Obviously he was a figurehead, but it seems reasonable to conclude that the atmosphere of judicial and political activity must have impinged on him and helped to form his character, and would have done so increasingly in his later teens. By contrast, his younger brother Henry, who succeeded to the title in 1504, was kept at court under his father's eagle eye. It is temping but dangerous to speculate on the psychological and other effects of these very different upbringings. Gunn restricts himself to the suggestion that Arthur's experience might have given him a better geographical perspective on his realm than Henry VIII was to show
Brother · Character (mathematics · Feud · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Reign · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2015 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |