| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
580 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-551) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. 1499 : A question of identity -- Walking the tightrope -- The life of the university and the university of life -- pt. 2. 1509 : A lawyer's life -- A fair beginning -- Council and councillor -- Obscure origins -- pt. 3. 1519 : Warrior king -- Friends, lovers and creatures -- Eminence -- Wisdom and folly -- Prince, priests and philosophers -- In the thickets of obscurity -- pt. 4. 1529 : Wolsey: the peacock years -- Out in the cold -- A man of property -- Storms and storm damage -- The fatal failure -- Hopes and fears -- The rise of the new men -- pt. 5. 1539 : New brooms -- Out of control -- End of an era -- Under new management -- The end of the affair -- The unholy maid -- Morus contra mundum -- Annus horribilis -- New men, new ideas, old anxieties -- pt. 6. 1549 : The scaffold at the centre of the labyrinth -- Faith and faction -- A lion in the Daniels' den -- Long live the king -- Epilogue: 1559 -- 34 requiescant. |
| Subject |
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of, 1505-1550.
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Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1473-1554.
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More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.
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Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.
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Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
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Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540.
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Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 16th century.
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Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0312286961 |
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