Thomas Starkey and the commonweal : humanist politics and religion in the reign of Henry VIII
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Thomas Starkey and the commonweal : humanist politics and religion in the reign of Henry VIII
（Cambridge studies in early modern British history）
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. 287-305
Includes index
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Description
Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. Beginning with his native Cheshire, it traces his career through Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal. Most of Starkey's career revolved around his patron Reginald Pole, scion of the highest nobility, but Starkey (and many other Englishmen) managed to balance loyalty to Pole with allegiance to Henry VIII. Out of favour with the king's secretary after the middle of 1536, Starkey turned increasingly to religion, continuing to cling to his conciliarist and Italian Evangelical opinions until his death.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A note on citations and abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Early life and education
- 2. Humanism from the source
- 3. 'Occasyon and tyme wyl never be restorey agayne': Pole, Paris and the dialogue
- 4. A responsible aristocracy
- 5. The dialogue in classical and 'medieval' tradition
- 6. An English spirituale
- 7. 'Homo politicus et regalis'
- 8. Writing for the drawer
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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