Remembering Wolsey A History Of Commemorations And Representations J Patrick Hornbeck Ii by J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii 9780823282203, 0823282201 instant download after payment.

Remembering Wolsey seeks to contribute to our understanding of historical memory and memorialization by examining in detail the commemoration and representation of the life of Thomas Wolsey, the sixteenth-century cardinal, papal legate, and lord chancellor of England. Hornbeck surveys a wide range of representations of Cardinal Wolsey, from those contemporary with his death to recent mass-market appearances on television and historical fiction, to go beyond previous scholarship that has examined Wolsey only in an early modern context.
Remembering Wolsey contributes significantly to the ongoing reimagining of English church history in the years prior to the Reformation. Surveying chronicle accounts, pamphlets, plays, poems, historical fictions, works of historical scholarship, civic pageants and monuments, films, and television programs, the book shows how an extended sequence of authors have told widely varying stories about Wolsey’s life, often through the lens of their own religious and ideological commitments and/or in response to the pressing concerns of their times.

Crossing the disciplines of religion, history, literature, and cultural studies, the book explores the many guises in which Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who served as lord chancellor of England from 1515 to 1529, has appeared in literary, historical, dramatic, and artistic works from the time of his death through
the present day.