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Author | : Peter J Gwyn |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1446475131 |
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.
Author | : Elizabeth C Goldsmith |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1586488902 |
The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.
Author | : Heather R. Darsie |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445677113 |
A fresh look at Anne of Cleves’ life as a German noblewoman, and the Continental politics that affected her marriage. Did the doomed union really cause the fall and execution of Thomas Cromwell?
Author | : Peter Gwyn |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cardinals |
ISBN | : 0712668330 |
The author examines every aspect of Wolsey's career: foreign policy, Church and state, law and order, social policy and relations with the Crown, with Parliament and the nobility. He presents a different Wolsey from the caricature of tradition.
Author | : George Cavendish |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1852 |
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Author | : William Arthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Popes |
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Author | : Great Britain. Record Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 990 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Great Britain. Record Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Mary Hollingsworth |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
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A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
Author | : Richard Fiddes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1726 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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