A Very Active Captain

Patrick Collinson

  • The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church by G.W. Bernard
    Yale, 736 pp, £29.95, November 2005, ISBN 0 300 10908 3
  • Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker
    Oxford, 556 pp, £65.00, October 2005, ISBN 0 19 928333 8

Henry VIII is the most immediately recognisable of all English monarchs, present company excepted. He has been declared a national icon, and we are told that he vies with Adolf Hitler for the exclusive attention of any secondary school pupil unwise enough to pursue the study of history beyond the age of 14.

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