Author: Richard CobboldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Freston Tower, Or, The Early Days of Cardinal Wolsey
Author: Richard CobboldWolsey
Author: John MatusiakPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075095776X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Wolsey is, arguably, the first comprehensive book to explore the many contrasting layers of Thomas Wolsey`s life and career, and represents the first genuinely popular biography of the much-maligned cardinal to appear in over thirty years. Making no assumptions, it looks at the real person in the cold light of his actions, and uncovers a man of contradictions and extremes whose meteoric rise was marked by an equally inexorable descent into desperation, as he attempted in vain to satisfy the tempestuous master whose ambition ultimately broke him. Far from being one more familiar portrait of an overweight and overweening spider or another cautionary tale of pride preceding a fall, this is the gripping story of how consummate talent, noble intentions and an eagle eye for the main chance can contrive with the vagaries of power politics to raise an individual to unheard of heights before finally consuming him.
The English Folly
Author: Gwyn HeadleyPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800346727
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief. All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously. Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies. Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint. Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders. If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.
The Church of England quarterly review
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: Freston Tower
Author: Richard CobboldThe Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl
Author: Richard CobboldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The History of Religion
Author: John EvelynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Author: John Evelyn