The King's Cardinal: Rise and Fall of Cardinal Wolsey

Gwyn, Peter J

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ISBN 10: 0712621903 ISBN 13: 9780712621908

Published by Barrie & Jenkins, London, UK, 1990

Language: English

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Title

The King's Cardinal: Rise and Fall of Cardinal Wolsey

Publisher

Barrie & Jenkins, London, UK

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0712621903

ISBN 13

9780712621908

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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Very Good

Weight

1200 grams

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Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop of Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book. From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of power unsurpassed by any other British commoner. Peter Gwyn explores every aspect of the Cardinal's career - not least his relationship with Henry VIII - and sets it firmly in a vividly recreated Tudor world. The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.'Magisterial' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph'Learned and controversial, it has all the elements of a detective story-His verdict is convincing-a fascinating book.' Lord Blake, Country Life'A work of magisterial ambition and achievement-He has taken a great subject and transformed it.' Blair Worden, London Review of Books

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Peter Gwyn taught history at Winchester College, where he was also the archivist from 1965 to 1976. He was elected Bowra Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford for 1981-2. He worked on this biography of Thomas Wolsey for eleven years.

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