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This fully updated (2013) book covers every Wolsey-related topic relevant to the AS/A2-level syllabus...

The Rise of Cardinal Wolsey

Wolsey's rise to power

How and why he came to emerge as the King's chief minister

The political power of Cardinal Wolsey

Wolsey and Henry VIII

Was Wolsey a dominant figure or the King's faithful servant?

Wolsey and the royal authority of Henry VIII

Wolsey, Henry VIII, and the marriage to Catherine of Aragon

After 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 Wolsey

Successes and failures

Cardinal Wolsey and the Church

Opposition to his reforms

Could Wolsey have done more to reform government?

Strengthening the royal authority of Henry VIII

Wolsey'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 Wolsey

Cardinal Wolsey's desire for peace

Satisfying the ambitions of Henry VIII

Wolsey and the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Wolsey and the promomtion of peace

The degree to which Wolsey's foreign policy was defensive

The effectiveness of Wolsey's foreign policy

Success and failures

Traditional 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 Wolsey

Why Wolsey fell from power

The role of Wolsey's enemies in his fall

Wolsey fall and his failure to achieve an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon