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In the lion's court : power, ambition, and sudden death in the reign of Henry VIII / Derek Wilson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Derek, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547--Relations with courts and courtiers.
- Henry.
- Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of, 1505-1550.
- Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley.
- Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540.
- Cromwell, Thomas.
- Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1473-1554.
- Norfolk, Thomas Howard.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535.
- More, Thomas.
- Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.
- Cranmer, Thomas.
- Wolsey, Thomas, 1475?-1530.
- Wolsey, Thomas.
- Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers--History--16th century.
- Great Britain--Court and courtiers--Biography.
- Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Relations with courts and courtiers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wakeman, Rollin (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 580 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. 1499 : A question of identity
- Walking the tightrope
- The life of the university and the university of life
- pt. 2. 1509 : A lawyer's life
- A fair beginning
- Council and councillor
- Obscure origins
- pt. 3. 1519 : Warrior king
- Friends, lovers and creatures
- Eminence
- Wisdom and folly
- Prince, priests and philosophers
- In the thickets of obscurity
- pt. 4. 1529 : Wolsey: the peacock years
- Out in the cold
- A man of property
- Storms and storm damage
- The fatal failure
- Hopes and fears
- The rise of the new men
- pt. 5. 1539 : New brooms
- Out of control
- End of an era
- Under new management
- The end of the affair
- The unholy maid
- Morus contra mundum
- Annus horribilis
- New men, new ideas, old anxieties
- pt. 6. 1549 : The scaffold at the centre of the labyrinth
- Faith and faction
- A lion in the Daniels' den
- Long live the king
- Epilogue: 1559
- Requiescant.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-551) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312286961
- 9780312286965
- OCLC:
- 49407494
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- Publisher description
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