The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics Policy and Piety (Problems in Focus)

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This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers in early Tudor studies provides an up-to-date discussion of the politics policy and piety of Henry VIIIs reign. It explores such areas as the reform of central and local government foreign policy relations between leading politicians life at Court Henrys first divorce and the break with Rome literature and the governments exploitation of it and the growth of evangelical religion in Henrys England. Particular consideration is given to the controversies which have arisen about the reign among modern historians and there is an effort to assess the personality of Henry himself.