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,
“... which didn’t quite fit. The story of attorney Cromwell’s mission to Rome was first told by John Foxe in Actes and Monumentes, the ‘Book of Martyrs’. Foxe had to rescue his hero with some deft literary footwork, turning on its head the uncomfortable tale of Cromwell’s journey to the heart of Roman superstition and error. Elizabethan Protestants ... ”