Hilaire Belloc - Wolsey
Hardback | 300 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-0-8
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 21 years
In Christendom on the eve of its destruction, Cardinal Thomas
Wolsey was to be identified with England. In one hand was
held the ropes of Church and State, and when he fell what he
had made was used to destroy all that he had known.
A peerless administrator who blundered abroad but remained
supreme at home, Wolsey's intelligence and industry were
matched by his ambition and myopia, and his inability to
comprehend the inmost thoughts of man proved fatal.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the low-born
cleric who might have stopped the Reformation, but who in
putting himself first, and distracted by the closest thing to hand,
unwittingly steered England toward its ruin.
Hardback | 300 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-0-8
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 21 years
In Christendom on the eve of its destruction, Cardinal Thomas
Wolsey was to be identified with England. In one hand was
held the ropes of Church and State, and when he fell what he
had made was used to destroy all that he had known.
A peerless administrator who blundered abroad but remained
supreme at home, Wolsey's intelligence and industry were
matched by his ambition and myopia, and his inability to
comprehend the inmost thoughts of man proved fatal.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the low-born
cleric who might have stopped the Reformation, but who in
putting himself first, and distracted by the closest thing to hand,
unwittingly steered England toward its ruin.
Hardback | 300 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-0-8
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 21 years
In Christendom on the eve of its destruction, Cardinal Thomas
Wolsey was to be identified with England. In one hand was
held the ropes of Church and State, and when he fell what he
had made was used to destroy all that he had known.
A peerless administrator who blundered abroad but remained
supreme at home, Wolsey's intelligence and industry were
matched by his ambition and myopia, and his inability to
comprehend the inmost thoughts of man proved fatal.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the low-born
cleric who might have stopped the Reformation, but who in
putting himself first, and distracted by the closest thing to hand,
unwittingly steered England toward its ruin.