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Thomas Cromwell - A Life (Paperback)
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Thomas Cromwell - A Life (Paperback)
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List price R486
Loot Price R358
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You Save R128 (26%)
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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL
TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the
biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel 'A
masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday Times Thomas Cromwell is one of the
most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in
obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the
1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of
ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was
effectively running the country for the King. That decade was one
of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break
with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of
all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing
his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and
after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has
been notoriously difficult. Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is much
the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive
figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making
connections not previously seen. It overturns many received
interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, 'secular'
politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and
Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious
sympathies - in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many
different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious
of the 'terrifyingly unpredictable' Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows
readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is
going on around them. For a time, the self-made 'ruffian' (as he
described himself) - ruthless, adept in the exercise of power,
quietly determined in religious revolution - was master of events.
MacCulloch's biography for the first time reveals his true place in
the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.
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