A Man It Would Be Unwise to Cross
Stephen Alford: Thomas Cromwell, 8 November 2018
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Allen Lane, 752 pp., £30, September 2018,978 1 84614 429 5 Show More
by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Allen Lane, 752 pp., £30, September 2018,
“... bound to a stake. Volatility in this book is left to King Henry, tantrums and petty revenge to Anne Boleyn, sulks and tactlessness to Stephen Gardiner, fuming at upstart nobodies to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk. Cromwell, without title and for a long time without proper position, moved quietly ever forward. It all began in Putney, a few miles upriver ... ”