In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition, and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII

by Derek Wilson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $8.49

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.45

  The author examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion, Henry VIII. Wilson tells the interlocking stories of six men (all, curiously, named Thomas) whose ambitions and principles brought them face to face with violent death. They were: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; Lord Chancellor Thomas More; Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex; Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton; and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury;

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.45

  An illuminating examination of the careers of the six Thomases, whose lives are described in parallel- their family and social origins, their pathways to the royal council chamber, their occupancy of the seige perilous, and the tragedies which, one by one, overwhelmed them.