Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament by Coby, John Patrick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Maps Tables 1. Introduction

What Is a “Reacting” Game? How to Play This Game

1. Game Setup 2. Game Play 3. Game Requirements 4. Skill Development

Prologue: A Parliamentarian’s Tale Chronology Significant Characters of the Period

2. Historical Background

The King’s “Great Matter” The Wars of the Roses Henrician Diplomacy before the King’s “Great Matter” Contending Ideas at the Time of the Reformation

Medieval Catholicism Lutheranism Renaissance Humanism Machiavellianism

The Rise of the Nation-State

3. The Game

Setting: Parliament, 1529–1536 Major Issues for Debate Major Legislation Brought before Parliament Game Layout and Class Sessions

Rules and Procedures

Parliament Parliamentary Leaders Henry and His Queens Patronage and Patronage Chits Convocation and Ecclesiastical Courts Attainder Trials Rules of Evidence Spying Embassies Abroad Revenues and Currency Styles of Address

Victory Assignments and Grading

Game Quiz and Study Guide Questions Papers Class Preparation Grades

4. Factions and Roles

Factions

Nobility Clergy Commoners Boleyn-Howard Faction Cromwell Faction Lutheran Faction Aragon Faction Foreign Powers Factional Alliances

Roles

Members of Parliament Indeterminates

5. Core Texts

Church and State

Ethics and Statecraft

Thomas More, Utopia, 1516 Desiderius Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince, 1516 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513

Appendix: Statutes of the Reformation Parliament Bibliography

Reserve Books

Primary Sources Secondary Sources

Historical Novels Films

Acknowledgments