Malice! Malice!
Stephen Sedley: Thomas More’s Trial, 5 April 2012
Thomas More’s Trial by Jury
edited by Henry AnsgarKelly, Louis Karlin and Gerard Wegemer.
Boydell, 240 pp., £55, September 2011,978 1 84383 629 2 Show More
edited by Henry AnsgarKelly, Louis Karlin and Gerard Wegemer.
Boydell, 240 pp., £55, September 2011,
“... a wretch, I wene, better worthy.’ And he was not, as it turned out, a man for quite all seasons. Henry VIII, whose faithful servant More professed to be and for the most part was, was a self-willed tyrant whose last resort against the papal refusal to sanction his divorce from Catherine of Aragon and his marriage to Anne Boleyn was to dethrone the pope as ... ”