Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Service, Loyalty: and Betrayal in Cavendish’s The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
View through CrossRef
George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey contains not only evidence concerning the author’s own duties as gentleman usher but also illustrates his specific ethic of loyal service. It is this ethic that explains why he felt obliged to write the book. The article shows how this ethic serves as a unifying theme in the text, insofar as Cavendish extends it to describe Wolsey’s relationship to the king. Its centrality also helps to explain Cavendish’s ambiguous relationship with Thomas Cromwell, whom he portrays as serving two masters for much of the year 1529-1530.
Title: Service, Loyalty: and Betrayal in Cavendish’s The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
Description:
George Cavendish’s Life of Cardinal Wolsey contains not only evidence concerning the author’s own duties as gentleman usher but also illustrates his specific ethic of loyal service.
It is this ethic that explains why he felt obliged to write the book.
The article shows how this ethic serves as a unifying theme in the text, insofar as Cavendish extends it to describe Wolsey’s relationship to the king.
Its centrality also helps to explain Cavendish’s ambiguous relationship with Thomas Cromwell, whom he portrays as serving two masters for much of the year 1529-1530.
Related Results
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (b.1623–d. 1673), published at least six works of natural philosophy under her own name (the number depends on how one counts various secon...
Penitence and Prophecy: George Cavendish on the Last State of Cardinal Wolsey
Penitence and Prophecy: George Cavendish on the Last State of Cardinal Wolsey
In composing the work known asThe life and death of Cardinal Wolsey, some twenty-five years after the last event it describes, George Cavendish was not motivated by the ambitions o...
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to publish a great deal in English, and she did so under her own name. Her writing includes poetry, fiction, drama, biography, autobiography,...
The conversion of the cardinal? Pride and penitence in some Tudor histories of Thomas Wolsey
The conversion of the cardinal? Pride and penitence in some Tudor histories of Thomas Wolsey
The life of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, lord chancellor of England from 1515 to 1529, has inspired no small number of literary, historical, and dramatic retellings. A comprehensive stu...
Margaret Cavendish on Gender, Nature, and Freedom
Margaret Cavendish on Gender, Nature, and Freedom
Some scholars have argued that Margaret Cavendish was ambivalent about women's roles and capabilities, for she seems sometimes to hold that women are naturally inferior to men, but...
Pengaruh Sales Promotion, E-Recovery Service Quality dan Security terhadap E-Loyalty
Pengaruh Sales Promotion, E-Recovery Service Quality dan Security terhadap E-Loyalty
Abstract. The research is based on the condition of the telecommunications industry business competition from time to time which is increasingly widespread, so companies must open ...
Factors Affecting Consumer Trust And Loyalty In Calysta Skincare Products At Branch Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD)
Factors Affecting Consumer Trust And Loyalty In Calysta Skincare Products At Branch Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD)
Claysta Skincare Clinic is competing to provide the best for its customers by giving more value to the clinic that differentiates it from the same competitors in the business busin...
Factors Affecting Consumer Trust And Loyalty In Calysta Skincare Products At Branch Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD)
Factors Affecting Consumer Trust And Loyalty In Calysta Skincare Products At Branch Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD)
Claysta Skincare Clinic is competing to provide the best for its customers by giving more value to the clinic that differentiates it from the same competitors in the business busin...