Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521038690)

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.

Author: Thomas F. Mayer
ISBN-10: 0521038693
ISBN-13: 9780521038690
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2007
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d