Thomas Becket, William Warham and the Crisis of the Early Tudor Church
England's first Tudor monarchs were formally devoted to the cult of St Thomas of Canterbury. In popular memory, however, Thomas was a champion of law and custom, an opponent of untrammelled royal power, and - especially among the clergy - a martyr for ecclesiastical ‘liberties’. This suggests t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 293-315 |
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Thomas a Becket 1118-1170
/ Saints
/ Heinrich, VIII., England, König 1491-1547
/ Warham, William 1450-1532
/ England
/ State
/ Church
/ History 1450-1539
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KCD Hagiography; saints RB Church office; congregation SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | England's first Tudor monarchs were formally devoted to the cult of St Thomas of Canterbury. In popular memory, however, Thomas was a champion of law and custom, an opponent of untrammelled royal power, and - especially among the clergy - a martyr for ecclesiastical ‘liberties’. This suggests that the pre-Reformation Church was considerably less ‘monarchical’ than is sometimes supposed. In the 1530s Thomas became a powerful symbol of resistance to Henry VIII's royal supremacy. However, the fact that he could be portrayed as a patron of the clergy's sectional interests helps to explain how opposition was weakened and divided. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S002204691800266X |