Thomas More and Christopher St. German : The Battle of the Books

An Early Tudor Debate on the Relation between Law and Equity

“…Such relief had been available in Chancery since the latter half of the fifteenth century, and by 1530 it was being granted with some frequency. 10 The following case, described by J.A. Guy in his book The Public Career of Sir Thomas More, appears to have been typical:…”

New Additions on Christopher St German: Law, Politics and Propaganda in the 1530s

“…64 He associated this decision with St German's growing uneasiness with the caesaropapist tendencies evident in Henry VIII's own understanding of his royal supremacy, and found confirmation of St German's 'detachment, even isolation, from the official party ' in the facts that his publications after 1534 appeared from the press of Thomas Godfray rather than that of the royal printer Thomas Berthelet, and that he published nothing at all after 1535. 51r-v. 62 Ibid.…”

Reaction to Henry VII's style of kingship and its contribution to the emergence of constitutional monarchy in England

“…97 Even More's influence appears to have been greater after his death in 1535 than during his lifetime. 101 St. German's 'idea that safety resided in numbers' is perhaps not so curious 102 if one considers the English experience of monarchy and royal councillors since Fortescue first wrote: in particular, the career and dramatic fall of Cardinal Wolsey. Under Henry VI, Fortescue was certainly not envisaging a constitutional monarch of the modern sort.…”