Types of Ambiguity
Conrad Russell, 22 January 1987
War, Taxation and Rebellion in Early Tudor England: Henry VIII, Wolsey and the Amicable Grant of 1525
by G.W. Bernard.
Harvester, 164 pp., £25, August 1986,0 7108 1126 8 Show More
by G.W. Bernard.
Harvester, 164 pp., £25, August 1986,
Reassessing the Henrician Age: Humanism, Politics and Reform 1500-1550
by Alistair Fox and John Guy.
Blackwell, 242 pp., £22.50, July 1986,0 631 14614 8 Show More
by Alistair Fox and John Guy.
Blackwell, 242 pp., £22.50, July 1986,
The Union of England and Scotland 1603-1608
by Bruce Galloway.
John Donald, 208 pp., £20, May 1986,0 85976 143 6 Show More
by Bruce Galloway.
John Donald, 208 pp., £20, May 1986,
“... to the failure of the Amicable Grant of 1525. This unfortunately-named levy was designed to allow Henry VIII to take advantage of the defeat and capture of the King of France to prosecute his French claims. The title was not just a piece of newspeak: it expressed a crucial ambiguity in Late Medieval constitutional thinking. The King must not tax without ... ”