Levy, F. J. Tudor Historical Thought.(Book Review)

History: Review of New Books, September, 2004 by Lowe, Ben

Levy, F. J. Tudor Historical Thought Toronto: University of Toronto Press 317 pp., $27.50, ISBN 0-8020-3775-5 Publication Date: March 2004

In almost every recent work touching on Tudor intellectual history some reference is made to Tudor Historical Thought, first published in 1967, and now reprinted by the Renaissance Society of America and the University of Toronto Press. F. J. Levy adopted the prevailing sentiment of most Tudor literary scholars and historians of the time (Tillyard, Lily Campbell, W. K. Jordan), who embraced some notion of a unified Elizabethan worldview. For Levy, historical writing became the conduit through which the intellectual currents of the sixteenth century--including humanism, protestantism, and pragmatic political...

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