The King S Cardinal

Author : Peter J Gwyn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446475133

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The King's Cardinal by Peter J Gwyn Pdf

Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively overturns in this remarkable book. From exceedingly humble beginnings Wolsey rose to a pinnacle of power unsurpassed by any other British commoner. Peter Gwyn explores every aspect of the Cardinal's career - not least his relationship with Henry VIII - and sets it firmly in a vividly recreated Tudor world. The Wolsey who emerges is a man of prodigious energy and ability, a tireless dispenser of justice, an enlightened reformer wholly dedicated to his king and country - a man who has been consistently misrepresented and maligned for four-and-a-half centuries.

Author : John L. Sutton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813164700

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The King's Honor and the King's Cardinal by John L. Sutton Pdf

Early in 1733 Augustus II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, died in Warsaw from complications of a gangrenous foot. The elective throne of Poland thus fell vacant, and the states of Europe began cautious maneuvers designed to secure for each some national advantage in the choice of a successor. Before the year was out, diplomacy had given way to military force. Yet the Age of Reason fostered a relationship between diplomacy and warfare that limited the violence of military action. The War of Polish Succession might have produced widespread carnage. It was a major struggle among the great powers of Europe with actions in Poland, the Rhineland, and Italy. Many illustrious commanders took part -- Marshal Villars and Prince Eugene, Maurice de Saxe and Count Daun. Behind them stood the powerful figures of Cardinal Fleury, anxious to uphold the honor of King Louis even as he guarded against escalation of the war, and Emperor Charles VI, obsessed with his desire to keep the Holy Roman Empire in Hapsburg hands. After three years of wary military action the war ended as it had begun, in a series of secret diplomatic maneuvers. No nation was annihilated, no prince unthroned, and once again Europe's precarious balance of power had been restored. John L. Sutton's engrossing account, the first in any major European language to bring together the evidence from the great diplomatic and military archives of Europe, reveals the very essence of eighteenth-century warfare, with its grand campaigns as formal as minuets, its sieges as gentlemanly as court receptions. On another level, the plight of the mercenaries who did much of the fighting yet had no stake in the conflict beyond day-to-day survival is portrayed just as vividly in this clear-eyed examination of a dynastic war and its setting.

Author : Great Britain. Record Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015073721626

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State Papers: pt. I. Correspondence between the king and Cardinal Wolsey, 1518-1530. pt. II. Correspondence between the king and his ministers, 1530-1547 by Great Britain. Record Commission Pdf

Author : John L. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783758081

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The King's Honor and the King's Cardinal by John L. Sutton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385672832

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Our Story by Anonim Pdf

Inspired by history, Our Story is a beautifully illustrated collection of original stories from some of Canada’s most celebrated Aboriginal writers. Asked to explore seminal moments in Canadian history from an Aboriginal perspective, these ten acclaimed authors have travelled through our country’s past to discover the moments that shaped our nation and its people. Drawing on their skills as gifted storytellers and the unique perspectives their heritage affords, the contributors to this collection offer wonderfully imaginative accounts of what it’s like to participate in history. From a tale of Viking raiders to a story set during the Oka crisis, the authors tackle a wide range of issues and events, taking us into the unknown, while also bringing the familiar into sharper focus. Our Story brings together an impressive array of voices—Inuk, Cherokee, Ojibway, Cree, and Salish to name just a few—from across the country and across the spectrum of First Nations. These are the novelists, playwrights, journalists, activists, and artists whose work is both Aboriginal and uniquely Canadian. Brought together to explore and articulate their peoples’ experience of our country’s shared history, these authors’ grace, insight, and humour help all Canadians understand the forces and experiences that have made us who we are. Maria Campbell • Tantoo Cardinal • Tomson Highway • Drew Hayden Taylor • Basil Johnston • Thomas King • Brian Maracle • Lee Maracle • Jovette Marchessault • Rachel Qitsualik

Author : WILLIAM ARTHUR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600101821

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THE KINGS & THE PEOPLE by WILLIAM ARTHUR Pdf

Author : Cardinal Guido BENTIVOGLIO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1764
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018679113

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Raccolta di lettere scritte dal S. Cardinal Bentivoglio, in tempo delle sue nunziature di Francia e di Fiandra, etc. (A Collection of Letters, etc.) Ital. & Eng by Cardinal Guido BENTIVOGLIO Pdf

Author : Joseph Grove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10068077

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The History Of The Life And Times Of Cardinal Wolsey by Joseph Grove Pdf

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : HARVARD:HWX527

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Eminent British Statesmen: Sir Thomas More [by Sir J. Mackintosh] Cardinal Wolsey. Archbishop Cranmer. William Cecil, Lord Burleigh [by J. Macdiarmid by John Forster Pdf

Author : Elizabeth C Goldsmith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586488901

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The Kings' Mistresses by Elizabeth C Goldsmith Pdf

The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan remarked that they were traveling "like two heroines out of a novel." Others gossiped that they "were roaming the countryside in pursuit of wandering lovers. "Their scandalous behavior -- disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with their husbands -- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands over their wives. Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the Mancini sisters -- drawn from personal papers of the players involved and the tabloids of the time -- illuminates the lives of two pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word existed.

Author : William Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Popes
ISBN : UOM:39015069272311

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The Pope, the Kings and the People by William Arthur Pdf

Author : Alessandro conte di Cagliostro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11725333

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Memorial, Or Brief, for the Comte de Cagliostro, Defendant: Against the King's Attorney-General, Plaintiff: in the Cause of the Cardinal de Rohan, Comtesse de la Motte, and Others. From the French Original, ... By Parkyns Macmahon by Alessandro conte di Cagliostro Pdf

Author : Thomas Bayly Howell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Trials
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2HPX

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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783 by Thomas Bayly Howell Pdf

Author : Richard Fiddes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1726
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : BL:A0025722073

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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by Richard Fiddes Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Archives
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000349262

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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf