Cardinal Wolsey: A Students' Guide

"The Only Book About Cardinal Wolsey Written Specifically To Help YOU Get An 'A*' In A-Level History"Meticulously Researched and Referenced - Your Long Search For Reliable Information About Wolsey Is OverThis fully updated (2013) book covers every Wolsey-related topic relevant to the AS/A2-level syllabus...The Rise of Cardinal WolseyWolsey's rise to powerHow and why he came to emerge as the King's chief ministerThe political power of Cardinal WolseyWolsey and Henry VIIIWas Wolsey a dominant figure or the King's faithful servant?Wolsey and the royal authority of Henry VIIIWolsey, Henry VIII, and the marriage to Catherine of AragonAfter nearly thirty years of intense, if inconclusive debate about Henry VIII's relationship with his ministers, a consensus is finally emerging. The king in his twenties and early thirties, it is generally agreed, was less consistently the author of his own policy than Edward IV or Henry VII, but it is wrong to cast him either as an 'absentee landlord' or as a 'mental defective'. Domestic policies of Cardinal WolseySuccesses and failuresCardinal Wolsey and the ChurchOpposition to his reformsCould Wolsey have done more to reform government?Strengthening the royal authority of Henry VIIIWolsey's domestic policy is often subordinated to consideration of his foreign policy, but this lopsidedness springs from an imbalance in the sources. Although intact at the time of his fall, Wolsey's files of domestic correspondence were subsequently broken up and partly lost or destroyed, whereas the bulk of his foreign papers survived. This makes it appear as if his priorities lay in foreign policy, which is incorrect. Foreign policy of Cardinal WolseyCardinal Wolsey's desire for peaceSatisfying the ambitions of Henry VIIIWolsey and the Field of the Cloth of GoldWolsey and the promomtion of peaceThe degree to which Wolsey's foreign policy was defensiveThe effectiveness of Wolsey's foreign policySuccess and failuresTraditional accounts of Wolsey's foreign policy have attempted to structure a mass of detailed facts around a single organizational theme. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the emphasis was on Wolsey as the impresario of a European 'balance of power'. But this mantra neither existed nor had conceptual meaning in the 16th century. The Fall of Cardinal WolseyWhy Wolsey fell from powerThe role of Wolsey's enemies in his fallWolsey f