Henry VIII and the English Nobility

By Helen Miller

Book Overview

`The picture which Miss Miller paints of Henry as a ruthless realist throughout his reign is more convincing than Pollard's image of a political innocent or the older Catholic historians' hypothesis... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631138366
• ISBN13: 9780631138365
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers

Customer Reviews

Good source on Henry's manipulation of the aristocracy

Whatever his personal and political faults, Henry VIII was astute in the art of government, weaving a network around the throne, and around the dynasty he was setting out to create, of old aristocratic families and newly created noblemen. By examining the way in which the king selected "new men," created new titles, promoted existing peers, and saw to it that the extinction of a title was always to his own advantage, Miller shows how Henry's attitudes, policies, and use of patronage reflected his dynastic insecurities.