Extract Starters

Question 1

Extract A convincingly argues that

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Henrys religious policy was conservative and primarily concerned with maintaining stability rather than promoting reform

Question 2

The extract refers to Henry’s treatment of lollardy as a threat…

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To order rather than a theological issue

Question 3

This is supported by contextual knowledge as Lollardy was associated with social unrest following the…

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Peasants’ Revolt and therefore posed a potential challenge to obedience. Henry’s limited but firm use of heresy laws suggests he aimed to suppress dissent without drawing attention to it

Question 4

However, the presence of humanist scholars such as Erasmus visiting England might suggest..

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Openness to new ideas

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Yet humanism under h7 focused on education, morality and classical learning…

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Not religious reform and did not challenge church doctrine

Question 6

This reinforces the extract’s argument that Henry tolerated learning…

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Insofar as it supported traditional authority and stability

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Overall, extract A is convincing in showing h7 used religion and learning to preserve..

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Order rather than to initiate reform

Question 8

A key argument in extract A is that

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Henry vii’s FP was strongly motivated by a desire to expand trade, which is a convincing interpretation to a significant extent.

Question 9

The extract highlights Henry’s use of commercial treaties, most notably the ..

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Intercursus Magnus (1496), to improve conditions for English merchants, particularly in the cloth trade.

Question 10

This supports the view that trade was central to his diplomacy, as the treaty..

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Restored access to Burgundian markets and ended years of damaging restrictions.

Question 11

In context, this was vital: cloth exports made up the majority of England’s overseas trade, so..

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Securing favourable terms w/burgundy suggests a clear economic priority

Question 12

However, this argument can be challenged by the fact that…

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Henry was willing to disrupt trade when dynastic security was threatened. For example, the trade embargo on burgundy in the early 1490s was imposed primarily to weaken support for warbeck, indicating that econ interests could be sacrificed for political stability.

Question 13

Nevertheless, the tract remains persuasive bc

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Henry consistently returned to trade expansion once threats subsided, as shown by the restoration of the Intercursus Magnus after warbeck’s departure.

Question 14

This suggest that while security concerns sometimes took precedence,

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The long term underpinning of h8’s fp remained the expansion and protection of English trade

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One of his short term aim was

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The elimination of foreign support for pretnders

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One of his long term aims was

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National security Auld Alliance- jasper Tudor and poynings law in Ireland as a security measure

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Overall short term security but it was not

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The ultimate goal

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Henrys VII reign allowed limited intellectual religious criticism

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Erasmus was allowed to spread his views to a limited degree
Lollardy was suppressed by end of his reign
But degree of tolerance because humanist scholars were allowed to teach his son, h8 e.g john colet, Erasmus and Henry vii did not limit the printing press or spread of new ideas

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Humanism and anticlericalism created space for gradual change

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Printing press, uni, trade - lollardy led by john Wycliffe

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Tolerance of humanism undermines the idea

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That stability was his primary aim.

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This is certainly true..

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In regard to…

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It is a valid argument that Guy puts

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Forward

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Hence why it is argued to be the most

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Serious threat

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Argument does appear to be convincing in terms of historical hindsight as it can be proved the rebellions amounted to very little yet to Henry at the time

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The threats appeared real and a threat to his throne.

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This could be linked to the historian’s later

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Points

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Yet it is hard to avoid the dissatisfaction

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Amongst the nobles due to Henry’s policies, hence their support of plots

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So the claim by the historian is correct

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In this area.

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The historians argument is summed up accurately in

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Quote

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This is most convincing

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Because

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Suggesting the threat may have been greater in

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his own mind