The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey - Hardcover

Gwyn, Peter J

 
9780712651226: The King's Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0712651225 ISBN 13: 9780712651226
Verlag: Pimlico, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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 if 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Pimlico
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0712651225
ISBN 13 
9780712651226
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
688
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