Thomas Cromwell A Life

Name: Thomas Cromwell
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Auteur: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

Auteur: Diarmaid MacCulloch

Engels
Paperback
9780241952337
04 juli 2019
752 pagina's

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Diarmaid MacCulloch

"Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch[needs IPA] Kt FSA FRHistS FBA (born 31 October 1951) is a British historian and academic, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor. Since 1997, he has been Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford.

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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel
'A masterpiece' Dan Jones, Sunday Times

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.

Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is much the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making connections not previously seen. It overturns many received interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, 'secular' politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious sympathies - in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious of the 'terrifyingly unpredictable' Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is going on around them.

For a time, the self-made 'ruffian' (as he described himself) - ruthless, adept in the exercise of power, quietly determined in religious revolution - was master of events. MacCulloch's biography for the first time reveals his true place in the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 juli 2019
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Hoofdauteur: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

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Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 34 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 38 mm
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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

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Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

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Onderwerp: Reformatie
Periode: 18e eeuw, 16e eeuw
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Taal: Engels

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