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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4197275, member: 93416&quot;]You are right that I missed a major event from my list – the debasement of the silver coinage, during 9 years, 1544-53, so begun by Henry VIII and terminated by Mary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like all the other events I mention it seems closely associated with war funding – but that does not really explain it – since surely about half of England’s kings got involved in continental wars, and before the 20th century none the others much debased. I checked in the Challis book “The Tudor Coinage” – I guess that is still the go-to place – but he seems to say very little on why that debasement happened – just lots of details on who was responsible for the policy. (Actually I knew Challis somewhat, and he seemed to me to generally put a damper on speculation about big issues - even more than other top academics).</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess he, like me, thought really it was a lot to do with the impetuous nature (or perhaps pig-headed recklessness?) of Henry VIII. If so I am going to count ‘having an impetuous nature’ as a sort of ideology, and score that one too - not as plague, bad harvest, physical shortage of silver, etc - but as prominently an ideological matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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