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Peter Gwyn.
The King’s Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey.
Published London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1990.
ISBN 0712621903;
ISBN-13 9780712621908.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Richard Clay.
Size: 160x240x55mm.
Page count: text xxii,666pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is a bit scuffed, a little ragged on its edges and corners; text pages printed on low-grade paper, so rather yellowed with age; in other respects the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 1069g.

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Contents: From butcher's cur to lordly prelate; Church & state in early 16th‑c. England; Making of the Treaty of London; Wolsey & the law; Calais conference of 1521; Patronage & politics at the court; The north, Ireland & Wales; The cardinal legate & the English church; The great enterprise; Wolsey & the common weal; Reform & reformation; The King’s great matter; Wolsey's downfall; Final year.

Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 15pp
Index: yes

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See also | Cardinal Wolsey |

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