Analysis Of Wolsey In The King's Cardinal

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Peter Gwyn also takes a historical perspective of Wolsey in his book, The King’s Cardinal. Unlike Cavendish, who heavily favored factions and the Boleyns as the makers of Wolsey’s demise, Gwyn does not put any merit in the idea that factions brought about Wolsey’s fall. He does not act like there were not tensions between Wolsey and the nobility, but from his perspective, “both as lord chancellor and as a leading royal councillor, he was bound to have to do things that would not be popular with them” (p 114). This is supposed to further his claim that Wolsey was solely following orders, because he was bound to do things by Henry. Gwyn’s account of Wolsey centers around the king and the claim that Henry used Wolsey’s fall from grace as a political statement, and that Henry was always in control of Wolsey’s actions. Also unlike Cavendish, who aimed to show Wolsey as a dedicated servant to both the king and the Church, Gwyn tries to show Wolsey as he was in all aspects, both good and bad, as a Cardinal, an advisor to the king, and a force to reckon with in terms of foreign relations. ...

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