Wolsey

Hardback | 300 pages

In Christendom on the eve of its destruction, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was to be identified with England. In one hand was held the ropes of Church and State, and when he fell what he had made was used to destroy all that he had known. 

A peerless administrator who blundered abroad but remained supreme at home, Wolsey's intelligence and industry were matched by his ambition and myopia, and his inability to comprehend the inmost thoughts of man proved fatal.

Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the low-born cleric who might have stopped the Reformation, but who in putting himself first, and distracted by the closest thing to hand, unwittingly steered England toward its ruin.

Belloc's biographies are among his greatest works, but nearly all of them have been out of print for decades and difficult to find. Os Justi Press is proud to be partnering with Mysterium Press of England to bring handsome new editions of his works to American readers.