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Thomas Cromwell - The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant (Paperback)
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Thomas Cromwell - The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant (Paperback)
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer
who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII's
right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English
Reformation; secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and
plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was
fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. But in this
engrossing new biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman
reveals a different side to one of history's most notorious
characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal
servant and friend, and a revolutionary who was key in transforming
medieval England into a modern state. Born in the mid-1480s to a
lowly blacksmith, Cromwell left home at eighteen to make his
fortune abroad. He served as a mercenary in the French army, worked
for a powerful merchant banker in Florence at the height of the
Italian Renaissance, and became a promising young cloth merchant in
the Netherlands, then the mercantile capital of the world. But
Cromwell decided to return to England and there built a flourishing
legal practice. It wasn't long before Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who
was the Archbishop of York and the King's closest confidant, took
note of Cromwell's immense intelligence, resourcefulness, and wit,
turning him into his protege. When Wolsey was put under arrest for
overstepping his bounds, Cromwell both protected his mentor and
supplanted him. And he accomplished what Wolsey never could:
Henry's divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon and a
revolution in Britain's religious life. As Henry's top aide,
Cromwell was at the heart of the most momentous event of his
time--from funding the translation and dissemination of the first
vernacular Bible to legitimizing Anne Boleyn as queen--and wielded
immense power over both church and state. The impact of his seismic
political, religious, and social reforms can still be felt today.
Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell
gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western
imagination for centuries and tells the story of a controversial
and enigmatic man who forever changed the shape of his country.
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