Reviews - Cardinal Wolsey

Every library ought to strain its resources to give students access to Gunn and Lindley.  Their contributors provide ... concise and readable summaries on standard essay topics like Wolsey in English government, foreign diplomacy or the Divorce crisis, but are also highly informative and original about his art patronage.  They reveal an imaginative patron of innovations, for instance in sculpture, stained glass and goldsmiths' work, but also a conservative in music and architectural planning...this is a remarkably coherent set of essays, staisfying both intellectually and aesthetically.

Teaching History

There was more to politics - even Renaissance politics - than costly show, as the excellent Gunn and Lindley collection of essays and illustrations demonstrates.

TES

There is ...plenty amongst these papers to maintain the interest of the political historian, but the more general value of this very well-illustrated volume lies in the way it extends the scope of or understanding of Wolsey by focusing on his activities as a builder and as a patron of the arts.

Durham University Journal

Ce beau volume rassemble une série d'articles jetant un éclairage nouveau sur le cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1475?-1530) chancelier d'Henry VIII. Une importante introduction que l'on doit aux éditeurs replace Wolsey dans son contexte et le compare aux autres cardinaux-ministres alors en activité en Europe....Ce volume ...est un apport seriéux à la connaissance de cette grande figure de l'histoire d'Angleterre.

Revue Irenikon

The traditional picture of Wolsey, the product of bitter hostility and furious jealousy, is successfully discarded and the real man emerges.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History