Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Terminal Date of Caesar's Gallic Proconsulate
- I TUDOR POLITICS
- 2 Renaissance Monarchy?
- 3 Henry VII: Rapacity and Remorse
- 4 Henry VII: a Restatement
- 5 The King of Hearts
- 6 Cardinal Wolsey
- 7 Thomas More, Councillor
- 8 Sir Thomas More and the Opposition to Henry VIII
- 9 King or Minister? The Man behind the Henrician Reformation
- 10 Thomas Cromwell's Decline and Fall
- 11 The Good Duke
- 12 Queen Elizabeth
- II TUDOR GOVERNMENT
- General Index
- Index of Authors Cited
4 - Henry VII: a Restatement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Terminal Date of Caesar's Gallic Proconsulate
- I TUDOR POLITICS
- 2 Renaissance Monarchy?
- 3 Henry VII: Rapacity and Remorse
- 4 Henry VII: a Restatement
- 5 The King of Hearts
- 6 Cardinal Wolsey
- 7 Thomas More, Councillor
- 8 Sir Thomas More and the Opposition to Henry VIII
- 9 King or Minister? The Man behind the Henrician Reformation
- 10 Thomas Cromwell's Decline and Fall
- 11 The Good Duke
- 12 Queen Elizabeth
- II TUDOR GOVERNMENT
- General Index
- Index of Authors Cited
Summary
In a vigorously argued paper, Mr J. P. Cooper has attacked my interpretation of Henry VII's reign. If the point at issue were only Mr Cooper's view of my methods and scholarship – or, for that matter, my view of his – I should feel neither justified nor inclined to trouble anyone again with these problems. But Mr Cooper is almost as much concerned to prove Henry VII rapacious as he is sure that I am wrong; and the truth about Henry VII's government deserves all the elucidation it may need. If, therefore, I reluctantly recur to an argument in which I have already had an extended say, it is because I believe Mr Cooper to be in error on a matter of first-rate importance; I hope to show that he has arrived at a mistaken view from partial, and partially misinterpreted, evidence. In a field in which things are far from clear or straightforward this is neither surprising nor shocking; it is more disconcerting to find that one who so readily chastises others for their supposed failings should himself be strangely inclined to inaccuracy in discussing other people's views and even in transcribing documents. A self-appointed hound of heaven ought to be more precise in his quest.
I must once again state the purpose of my earlier article.
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- Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and GovernmentPapers and Reviews 1946–1972, pp. 66 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1974