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Henry VII (henry + vii)

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Henry VII and the Bristol expeditions to North America: the Condon documents

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 221 2010
Evan T. Jones
Little is known about the Bristol discovery voyages of the years 1496,1508 and, as my recent article in this journal has shown, even less is certain. The current article contributes to research in this field by publishing two ,new' documents, which were first discovered in the nineteen-seventies but, for the reasons explained here, have not been published until now. These documents are significant both because they reveal important new information about the voyages and because they serve to confirm some of the remarkable, but previously unsubstantiated, claims made about the expeditions by the late Dr. Alwyn Ruddock. [source]

Politic history, New Monarchy and state formation: Henry VII in European perspective

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 217 2009
Steven Gunn
Historians have repeatedly compared Henry VII with his continental contemporaries, Louis XI of France and Ferdinand of Aragon. Around 1600 the writers of politic history emphasized Henry's wisdom in drawing lessons in statecraft from his fellow monarchs. By 1900 analysts of the ,New Monarchy' placed more stress on the common circumstances that underlay the revival of monarchical power, but thereby raised awkward questions about similarities and differences in the development of national states. Latterly a model of European state formation has been constructed which sets Henry's kingship less comfortably alongside those of Louis and Ferdinand. This should lead us not to abandon, but to reshape the attempt to set Henry in his European context. [source]

Household, politics and political morality in the reign of Henry VII

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 217 2009
David Grummitt
Late fifteenth-century England, it has recently been suggested, experienced its own ,pre-Machiavellian moment', when the rules of politics and political morality were redefined in the crucible of civil war. Moreover, this was part of a wider western European shift in the nature of politics and one with which Henry, as an exile in Brittany and France, was personally acquainted. The Spanish ambassador's comment, therefore, that the king wished to rule in the ,French fashion' can be interpreted in terms of politics and morality as well as government and administration. This article will argue that the redefinition of political morality in Henry's reign centred upon a redefinition of the nature of the household and the role of household servants. It was manifested through changes in the institution of the royal household itself (the development of the privy chamber and financial machinery of the chamber) and through conflict over the role and meaning of the household. The unease and crisis around this redefinition of one of the cornerstones of late medieval political and social life was also reflected in discourse, such as in the poems of Skelton and in contemporary chronicles. Despite this disquiet, the alteration in political culture was lasting and defined the practice of politics throughout the remainder of the sixteenth century. [source]

,Agree with the king': Henry VII, Edmund Dudley and the strange case of Thomas Sunnyff

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 205 2006
Mark R. Horowitz
Although Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley were executed in 1510 in part for their rabid prosecution of written bonds, their activities at the time were only quietly recognized as part of a royal policy encouraged by Henry VII (1485,1509). Yet there has been little investigation into how these ministers went about mulcting the populace, beyond the vituperative reports of the London chronicles. The case of Thomas Sunnyff, which has not been analyzed or placed in the context of such activity, is a rare example of how Empson, Dudley and their minions went about their business. Using City, local and national documentation, the article uncovers what happened, why and how it reflected royal policy. [source]

The English Parliaments of Henry VII, 1485,1504 , By P. R. Cavill

HISTORY, Issue 320 2010
CHRISTINE CARPENTER
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Henry VII in Context: Problems and Possibilities

HISTORY, Issue 307 2007
STEVEN GUNN
Clearer understanding of Henry VII's reign is hindered not only by practical problems, such as deficiencies in source material, but also by its liminal position in historical study, at the end of the period conventionally studied by later medievalists and the beginning of that studied by early modernists. This makes it harder to evaluate changes in the judicial system, in local power structures, in England's position in European politics, in the rise of new social groups to political prominence and in the ideas behind royal policy. However, thoughtful combination of the approaches taken by different historical schools and reflection on wider processes of change at work in Henry's reign, such as in England's cultural and economic life, can make a virtue out of Henry's liminality. Together with the use of more unusual sources, such an approach enables investigation for Henry's reign of many themes of current interest to historians of the later Tudor period. These include courtly, parliamentary and popular politics, political culture, state formation and the interrelationships of different parts of the British Isles and Ireland. [source]