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Elton's Cromwell
Author(s) -
BERNARD G. W.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.12
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1468-229X
pISSN - 0018-2648
DOI - 10.1111/1468-229x.00088
Subject(s) - servant , government (linguistics) , presentation (obstetrics) , history , classics , law , philosophy , political science , engineering , medicine , linguistics , software engineering , radiology
Sir Geoffrey Elton's presentation of Thomas Cromwell as the architect of ‘the Tudor revolution in government’ rested upon assumptions about Cromwell's relationship with Henry VIII that are here scrutinized and questioned. Cromwell's remembrances, in particular, are drawn upon to argue that, far from holding the government of the country in his hands alone, Cromwell was rather the king's hard‐working servant.