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 ...
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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.
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This book provides the reader and student with a long-overdue redressing of the gross imbalance caused by the polemical writings of Protestant partisans. Peter Gwyn has achieved the objective of clarifying and establishing the precise historical relevance of Thomas Wolsey as churchman and statesman. Far from being the gross, decadent, all-devouring spider at the centre of the web of court-intrigue, Wolsey pursued a policy of dedicated and enlightened service both to Crown and Pope through astute legislation. His downfall came from a refusal to compromise integrity in the face of the dynastic machinations of King and Cromwell and not from the seeking after of wealth and titles.
