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Hace 3 días · Thomas Cromwell is a good subject for fact and fiction. He was and remains somewhat of an enigma both as a visionary for government efficiency and as an ambitious ‘new man’ rising from the obscurity of a blacksmith’s son to perhaps the most powerful man in England save his king, Henry VIII.
Hace 4 días · Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
Hace 3 días · The King relied on Protestants, such as Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer, to carry out his religious programme and embraced the language of the continental Reformation, while maintaining a middle way between religious extremes. [64]
Hace 1 día · The king's affairs were now in the hands of the supremely competent, and Protestant-leaning, Thomas Cromwell. Henry, or possibly Cromwell, tried to persuade Tyndale to come home. The king's emissary met him in a field outside the gates of Antwerp and was sent back empty-handed.
Hace 2 días · If Wolsey’s motivations are debated (was he a reformer or merely greedy?), his legacy is clear: Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell played an important part in Wolsey’s monastic interventions in the 1520s, and built on this experience when he became Henry VIII’s chief minister in the 1530s.
Hace 3 días · Cambridge, like all other ecclesiastical institutions, subsequently became subject to visitation by Thomas Cromwell. The sticking point this time was humanist changes to the curriculum, which Cromwell’s visitors Thomas Legh and John ap Rice attempted to impose in 1535.
Hace 5 días · “In the City of London, behind the Bank of England, there is a little street called Austin Friars. Sober and narrow, it offers glimpse of a city garden, something sweetly natural at the granite heart of the establishment. The garden belongs to Drapers’ Hall, which stands on the site of one of the great powerhouses of Tudor London. In the 1530s, Austin Friars was the home of Thomas Cromwell ...
