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Literature and Politics in Early Tudor England - Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. By Alistair Fox. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. x + 317. $39.95. - Thomas Starkey: A Dialogue between Pole and Lupset. Edited by T. F. Mayer. Publications of the Camden Society, 4th ser., vol. 37. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1989. Pp. xxi + 150. $29.00. - Thomas Starkey and the Commonweal: Humanist Politics and Religion in the Reign of Henry VIII. By Thomas F. Mayer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 316. $59.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

S. J. Gunn
S. J. Gunn*
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 216 - 221
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