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Cardinal Wolsey - A Life in Renaissance Europe (Hardcover)
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This is an exciting new biography of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of
the most powerful men in English history whose impact was as great
in Church affairs as those of the State. The accession of Henry
VIII provided the catalyst for Wolsey's dramatic rise to power and
in 1514 he received first the bishopric of Lincoln and then the
archbishopric of York. A month after his receipt of the coveted
Cardinal's hat in 1515, Wolsey became lord chancellor, making him
the king's principal minister and England's senior judge, despite
having no formal education in the law.His greatest diplomatic
achievements included the 1518 treaty of London (the 'universal
peace'), in which he played the quasi-papal role of engineering an
accord between most of the states of Europe and secured the
betrothal of Princess Mary with the infant dauphin. Thanks to
Wolsey, England enjoyed unprecedented influence among the states of
Europe, and never more so than in 1520, when the cardinal
masterminded the spectacular Anglo-French summit meeting at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold.Wolsey's pan-European vision ensured
that he was well aware of the threat posed by Martin Luther's
theological revolution and campaign against clerical abuses. He
therefore sought to nip English heresy in the bud by taking
decisive action against known religious radicals and by founding
Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford, with a view to
forming well-educated priests who would combat heresy and institute
ecclesiastical reform from within the hierarchy. Among England's
senior churchmen, only Wolsey might have executed such a strategy,
but circumstances were combining to thwart his plans. It was ironic
that Wolsey, the arbiter of European interstate relations, was
frustrated and ultimately disgraced by the essentially domestic
problem of the king's determination that Anne Boleyn should be his
wife and the mother of his legitimate heir. Stella Fletcher has
written an engaging and dramatic biography of this colossus of the
Tudor age.
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