Books by Stephen Gardiner

This book contains the text of three political tracts written by Stephen Gardiner in the original Latin with a facing-page English translation. The three pieces are as follows: 'Gardiner's Tract on Fisher's Execution', 'The Oration of True Obedience' and 'Gardiner's Answer to Bucer'.

In this work, which has survived only in manuscript form and in Italian, Gardiner analyses the great dynastic changes in England's past in order to provide Phillip II with a guide to ruling England and establishing a Catholic dynasty. Gardiner's work is perhaps the clearest example of an attempt to relate Machiavelli's political theories to practical political problems.