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Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation (Hardcover)
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Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation (Hardcover)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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England's first Protestant foreign policy initiative, an alliance
with German Protestants, is shown to have been a significant
influence on the Henrician Reformation. England's first Protestant
foreign policy venture took place under Henry VIII, who in the wake
of the break with Rome pursued diplomatic contacts with the League
of Schmalkalden, the German Protestant alliance. This venture was
supported by evangelically-inclined counsellors such as Thomas
Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer, while religiously conservative figures
such as Cuthbert Tunstall, John Stokesley and Stephen Gardiner
sought to limit such contacts. The king's own involvement reflected
these opposed reactions: he was interested in the Germans as
alliance partners and as a consultative source in establishing the
theology of his own Church, but at the same time he was reluctant
to accept all the religious innovations proposed by the Germans and
their English advocates. This study breaks new ground in presenting
religious ideology, rather than secular diplomacy, as the
motivation behind Anglo-Schmalkaldicnegotiations. Relations between
England and the League exerted a considerable influence on the
development of the king's theology in the second half of the reign,
and hence affected the redirection of religious policy in 1538,
thepassing of the Act of Six Articles, the marriage of Henry to
Anne of Cleves and the fall of Thomas Cromwell. The examination of
the development of Henry's religious thinking is set in the wider
context of the foreign policy imperatives of the German
Protestants, the ministerial priorities of Thomas Cromwell and
factional politics at the court of Henry VIII. RORY McENTEGART is
Academic Director of American College Dublin.
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