Defending the faith from France : an underlying motivation of the English Crown's political relationship with the Papacy, 1509-1522
This study argues that Leo X’s naming Henry VIII ‘fidei defensor’ (1521) represented the culmination of a political strategy aimed at protecting the papacy from France since 1509. Based on full reconstruction of the Anglo-papal narrative, this was found to be motivated by a xenophobia rooted in Engl...
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University of Birmingham
2011
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538943 |