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Thomas Cromwell - Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation (Paperback)
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Thomas Cromwell - Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation (Paperback)
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Thomas Cromwell, chief architect of the English Reformation, served
as minister of Henry VIII from 1531 to 1540, the period during
which more political and religious reform was accomplished than at
any other time in Henry's thirty-seven-year reign. Thus the
momentous events of the 1530s are generally (but not universally)
attributed to Cromwell's agency. Cromwell has been the subject of
close and continuous attention for the last half century, with
positive appraisal of his work and achievements as the scholarly
norm. In this classroom biography_the first in a generation and the
only one now in print_that judgment is largely accepted, though it
is combined with earlier and more critical assessments that view
Cromwell as a disciple of Machiavelli. One distinguishing feature
of this study is its overview of Machiavellian thought, along with
its overview of Marsilian thought. Marsilius of Padua,
fourteenth-century political philosopher and author of Defensor
Pacis, is widely recognized as the source of Cromwell's reformation
ideas; but nowhere is Marsilius explicated. The same is true of
Machiavelli_never explicated though said to be (by Reginald Pole,
cousin of Henry and cardinal of the church) the source of
Cromwell's ideas on statecraft. A second distinguishing feature of
the book is its inclusion of an introductory chapter that situates
Cromwell in the sixteenth century and shows his connection to
important events, characters, and ideas. Thus, while the book is a
biography, its focus is broader and its uses more various.
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