Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Young Thomas More
- 2 Fashioning Peace and Prosperity
- 3 Cicero's and More's First Citizens
- 4 More's Earliest Views of Humanitas, Libertas, and Respublica, 1500–1506
- 5 More's Life of Pico della Mirandola (c. 1504–1507)
- 6 More's 1509 Coronation Ode
- 7 Political Poems of 1509–1516
- 8 Richard III
- 9 Utopia
- 10 The Un-Utopian Thomas More Family Portrait
- 11 The Arts of Liberty
- Works Cited
- Index
6 - More's 1509 Coronation Ode
Artful Education of Eighteen-Year-Old Henry VIII?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Young Thomas More
- 2 Fashioning Peace and Prosperity
- 3 Cicero's and More's First Citizens
- 4 More's Earliest Views of Humanitas, Libertas, and Respublica, 1500–1506
- 5 More's Life of Pico della Mirandola (c. 1504–1507)
- 6 More's 1509 Coronation Ode
- 7 Political Poems of 1509–1516
- 8 Richard III
- 9 Utopia
- 10 The Un-Utopian Thomas More Family Portrait
- 11 The Arts of Liberty
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Henry rejoiced to bear the name of his all-conquering predecessor. … [T]ales of Henry V's exploits … filled his ears as a boy and gave him his ideal of kingship: he too, he resolved, would conquer France and make the name of the king of England the most feared in Europe.
David Starkey, Henry: Virtuous Prince, p. 20How tranquil the clemency that warms his peaceful heart, how far removed from arrogance is his mind – these are the definite marks, marks that cannot be counterfeited [fingere], that are displayed on the countenance of our remarkable princeps.
Thomas More, Coronation Ode for Henry VIII, 19/78–81With good right was Socrates' look ever the same [tranquil and serene], since his mind, by which the countenance is fashioned [fingitur], underwent no change.
Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.31The natural abilities of a princeps are cultivated by the liberal arts.
Thomas More, Coronation Ode for Henry VIII, 19/116–17On 23 April 1509 Henry became king of England; on 28 June he turned eighteen; by the end of the year, this young “king ever desirous of serving Mars,” began diplomatic and military preparations for war and would go on to spend “roughly a quarter of his reign in open war with France.” In doing so, he was imitating his “idea of man,” his hero Henry V, his “conception and idea of a good person.” Thomas More, in writing his coronation ode for Henry VIII, would try to give his young monarch an alternate idea.
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- Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty , pp. 88 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011