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Henrician Polemic in its International Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9799714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracey A Sowerby (0000-0002-8078-8787, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 494 |
| Pages | 1271-1299 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| 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/cel279 |
| OpenAlex | W2078107184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the first two decades of Henry VIII's reign, his government deliberately promoted the publication of polemics on the continent. These were principally designed to celebrate his military victories and foreign policy. During the crucial years of the Divorce and Royal Supremacy, this policy was extended. Precisely those Henrician polemics which justified the Divorce and laid the foundations of the Supremacy became source books for English diplomats. Tracts such as Stephen Gardiner's De vera obedientia were concurrently sent to English diplomats at foreign courts, presented to foreign courtiers and sometimes published by continental printers. Thus uniformity in English rhetoric at home and abroad was ensured at the very time when the theory of the Henrician church was being developed and faced its strongest criticisms. In practical terms the use of polemical works as diplomatic handbooks also made sense, providing ready-made justifications and potentially saving precious time when composing diplomatic instructions. Throughout the 1530s and 1540s there was also a strong concern that official tracts be sufficiently robust to stand up to public scrutiny. The men involved in the propaganda campaigns recognised too that the importance of a work of government polemic lay not just in its arguments, but also (and often more importantly) in the use to which it was put. The sophistication of both the polemical campaigns and Henrician diplomacy was, therefore, greater than has previously been appreciated
Context (archaeology · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Reign · Rhetoric · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |