Reginald Pole
Prince and Prophet
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- Author: Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois
- Date Published: August 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521038690
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This was the first full-length biography in ninety years of Reginald Pole (1500–1558), one of the most important international figures of the sixteenth century, and the first ever to give equal attention to all phases of his career. It was based on painstaking and extensive archival research, above all in Italy and among the archives of the Inquisition. Pole spent much of his life writing, especially about himself. This book attempted to expose the tension between the 'life as lived' and the 'life as written' in order to see Pole whole rather than as a plaster saint - or devil. Pole's career is followed as protégé and then harshest critic of Henry VIII, as cardinal and papal diplomat, legate of Viterbo, a nearly successful candidate for pope, and finally as legate to England, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the English Counter-Reformation, and victim of both pope Paul IV and of himself.
Read more- A comprehensive, illustrated biography of Cardinal (Reginald) Pole, one of the most influential and charismatic figures of the sixteenth century
- Covers Pole's career from his years as Henry VIII's protégé to his years in Italy, and his return to England during the reign of Mary I as archbishop of Canterbury
- Delves deeply into archival material, including the records of the Inquisition, and includes startling new evidence about Pole's sexual orientation
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'A very handsomely produced volume … Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet will appeal to the historian of the mid-sixteenth century with a particular interest in Pole's exact involvement in the life of middle-European and English politics.' Boekbeoordelingen
See more reviews'… Pole's English career has found a definitive exposition.' The Downside Review
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- Date Published: August 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521038690
- length: 488 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.727kg
- contains: 43 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. A book and a life
2. The campaign against Henry VIII
3. The church of Viterbo? 4. The council of Trent
5. The war of the saints
6. Temporal and spiritual peace
7. Reconstructing the English church
8. Temporal and spiritual war
9. The making of a saint
Catalogue of images
Conclusion: 'Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit'?
Index.
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