History ETDs
Publication Date
1964
Abstract
The reader of the standard history texts is left with the impression that the Court of Star Chamber was established by Henry VII essentially out of nowhere to bring order out of chaos and to help secure his rather shaky throne. Once it had succeeded in slapping the wrists of the turbulent nobility the court is depicted as having gradually turned to the exaltation of the royal powers, through becoming a prerogative court, until it was altered by the Stuarts into an instrument of real tyranny. The Court appears as a tribunal which served only to cut off the ears, slit the noses, and brans the cheeks of the king’s opponents, either civil or ecclesiastical.
Level of Degree
Masters
Degree Name
History
Department Name
History
First Committee Member (Chair)
Josiah Cox Russell
Second Committee Member
Paul Sonnino
Third Committee Member
Henry tobias
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Recommended Citation
Lomax, Marvin M.. "The Court Of Star Chamber Under Henry Vii And Henry Viii." (1964). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/351
