Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII (repost)
Thomas Starkey and the Commonwealth: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII By Thomas Mayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0521521289 | PDF | 8 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0521521289 | PDF | 8 MB
Thomas Starkey (c. 1495-1538) was the most Italianate Englishman of his generation. This book places Starkey into new and more appropriate contexts, both biographical and intellectual, taking him out of others in which he does not belong, from displaced Roundhead to follower of Marsilio of Padua. Beginning with his native Cheshire, it traces his career through Oxford, Padua, Paris, Avignon, Padua again, and finally England, where he spent the last four years of his life trying to fulfil his ambition to serve the commonweal.