In today's Claire Chats I look at whether Henry VIII was a tyrant and compare him to Machiavelli's idea of what a monarch/leader should be.
Sources
- Henry VIII: A Machiavellian Musical Monarch, Theodore Harvey
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
- Machiavelli and Mystery of State, Peter Donaldson
- Reginald Pole and Thomas Cromwell: An Examination of the Apologia Ad Carolum Quintum, Paul Van Dyke (1904)
- Historical Studies of the English Parliament, Volume 2, edited by E. B. Fryde, Edward Miller
- The Last Days of Henry VIII, Robert Hutchinson
- A Brief History of Henry VIII: King, Reformer and Tyrant, Derek Wilson
- 1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII, Suzannah Lipscomb
- Henry: Virtuous Prince, David Starkey
- “Why Tyrants Go Too Far: Malignant Narcissism and Absolute Power”, Glad, B. (2002, March)
- Henry VIII, J J Scarisbrick
- Historiography: Culture, edited by Robert M. Burns
- Henry VIII and History, edited by Thomas Betteridge, Thomas S. Freeman