Reginald Pole : Prince and Prophet

By Thomas F. Mayer

Book Overview

This is the first biography in ninety years of Reginald Pole (1500SH1558), one of the most important international figures of the sixteenth century. Pole's career is followed as prot g and then harshest critic of Henry VIII, as cardinal and papal diplomat, legate of Viterbo, a nearly successful candidate for pope, and finally as legate to England, archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the English Counter-Reformation, and victim of both Pope Paul IV and of himself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521038693
• ISBN13: 9780521038690
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"