The King's Cardinal : The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey - Peter J Gwyn

The King's Cardinal

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey

By: Peter J Gwyn

Paperback | 27 February 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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 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.
Industry Reviews
"A masterpiece, a tour de force...Beautifully sculpted, it sustains its momentum to the last page...A magnificent and authoritative book." -- J. J. Scarisbrick * 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 * "It is intelligently illuminating on both Wolsey and his world, and is especially good on the Church and foreign policy...It is indispensable" -- Christopher Haigh * Times Educational Supplement * "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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