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Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

THOMAS STARKEY

AND THE COMMONWEAL

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Series editors

ANTHONY FLETCHER

Professor of Modern History, University of Durham

JOHN GUY

Reader in British History, University of Bristol

and JOHN MORRILL

Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, and

Fellow and Tutor of Selwyn College

This is a series of monographs and studies covering many aspects of the history of the

British Isles between the late fifteenth century and the early eighteenth century. It

includes the work of established scholars and pioneering work by a new generation of

scholars. It includes both reviews and revisions of major topics and books which open

up new historical terrain or which reveal startling new perspectives on familiar

subjects. All the volumes set detailed research into broader perspectives and the books

are intended for the use of students as well as of their teachers.

Titles in the series

The Common Peace: Participation and the Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century

England

CYNTHIA B. HERRUP

Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire,

1620-1660

ANN HUGHES

London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the

Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis

TIM HARRIS

Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I

KEVIN SHARPE

Central Government and the Localities: Hampshire, 1649-1689

ANDREW COLEBY

John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s

GREG WALKER

Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623-1677

JONATHAN SCOTT

Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign

of Henry VIII

THOMAS F. MAYER

The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation

ROBERT WHITING

The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-1667

PAUL SEAWARD

THOMAS STARKEY

AND THE COMMONWEAL

Humanist politics and religion in the

reign of Henry VIII

THOMAS F. MAYER

Assistant Professor of History,

Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

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First published 1989

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Mayer, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick), 1951—

Thomas Starkey and the commonweal: humanist politics and religion

in the reign of Henry VIII / Thomas F. Mayer.

p. cm. - (Cambridge studies in early modern British history).

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

ISBN 0 521361044

1. Starkey, Thomas, d. 1538. 2. Reformation - England.

3. Sociology, Christian - History of doctrines - 16th century.

4. England - Church history -16th century. 5. Great Britain -

Politics and government -1509-1547. 6. Christianity and politics -

History of doctrines -16th century. 7. Humanities - England -

History - 16th century. I. Title. II. Series.

BR350.S7M39 1989

942.05'2'0924-dcl9 88-26000 CIP

ISBN 0 521 36104 4 hardback

ISBN 0 521521289 paperback

CONTENTS

page vi

A note on citations and abbreviations

Introduction

Early life and education

Humanism from the source

'Occasyon and tyme wyl never be restorey agayne':

Pole, Paris and the Dialogue

A responsible aristocracy

The Dialogue in classical and

'medieval' tradition

An English spirituale

'Homo politicus et regalis'

Writing for the drawer

Conclusion

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139

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278

Bibliography

Index

287

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