On the Tudor Monarchy

From Civic Humanism to Mixed Monarchy

Authors

  • Akekalak Chaiyapumee Kasetsart University

Keywords:

Civic humanism, Double majesty, New monarchy, Mixed monarchy, Tudor monarchy

Abstract

This article portrays models of the Tudor monarchy from the European and English political context, starting from what Hans Baron termed as the wave of Civic Humanism, or J. G. A. Pocock’s Machiavellian moment in the age of Renaissance, before the civic humanists’ model of monarchy transmitted into the English context in various political discourses during the Pre-Tudor period. After the end of the War of the Roses, the Tudor model of English Monarchy emerged from the notion of Double Majesty into the novel idea of New Monarchy and King-in-Parliament, which paved the way for subsequent models limiting the power of the English monarch, such as the Mixed Monarchy and the modified Estates of the Realm in the Elizabethan era.

Author Biography

Akekalak Chaiyapumee, Kasetsart University

Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences,

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2021-06-27

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Chaiyapumee, A. (2021). On the Tudor Monarchy: From Civic Humanism to Mixed Monarchy. Journal of Letters, 50(1), 157–176. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jletters/article/view/241561

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