Название: Thomas Cromwell: A Life
Автор: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Издательство: Allen Lane
ISBN: 1846144299
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 752
Размер: 51,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.