Thomas Cranmer the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation-and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce This is the first major biography of him for more than three decades & the first for a century to exploit rich new manuscript sources in Britain & elsewhere Diarmaid Mac Culloch one of the foremost scholars of the English Reformation traces Cranmer from his east-Midland roots through his twenty-year career as a conventionally conservative Cambridge don He shows how Cranmer was recruited to the coterie around Henry VIII that was trying to annul the royal marriage to Catherine & how new connections led him to embrace the evangelical faith of the European Reformation & ultimately to become archbishop of Canterbury By then a major English statesman living the life of a medieval prince-bishop Cranmer guided the church through the king's vacillations & finalized two successive versions of the English prayer book Mac Culloch skillfully reconstructs the crises Cranmer negotiated from his compromising association with three of Henry's divorces the plot by religious conservatives to oust him & his role in the attempt to establish Lady Jane Grey as queen to the vengeance of the Catholic Mary Tudor In jail after Mary's accession Cranmer nearly repudiated his achievements but he found the courage to turn the day of his death into a dramatic demonstration of his Protestant faith From this vivid account Cranmer emerges a more sharply focused figure than before more conservative early in his career than admirers have allowed more evangelical than Anglicanism would later find comfortable A hesitant hero with a tangled life story his imperishable legacy is his contribution in the prayer book to the shape & structure of English speech & through this to the molding of an international language & the theology it expressed ...

' This deeply researched & grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life & exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal glittering splendour' Kate Williams Independent Thomas Cromwell's life has made gripping reading for millions through Hilary Mantel's bestselling novels Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies But who was the real Cromwell? In this major new biography leading historian Tracy Borman examines the life loves & legacy of the man who changed the shape of England forever Born a lowly tavern keeper's son Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII's right hand man & one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history The architect of England's break with the Roman Catholic Church & the dissolution of the monasteries he oversaw seismic changes in England's history Influential in securing Henry's controversial divorce from Catherine of Aragon many believe he was also the ruthless force behind Anne Boleyn's downfall & subsequent execution Although for years he has been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power Thomas Cromwell was also a loving husband father & guardian a witty & generous host & a loyal & devoted servant With fresh research & new insights into Cromwell's family life his household & his close relationships Tracy Borman Tracy Borman tells the true story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant ...

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