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Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister
Contemporary Review, Winter, 2007
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister. Robert Hutchinson. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. [pounds sterling]20.00. vii + 360 pages. ISBN 978-0-297-84642-0. Mr Hutchinson has made a name for himself as an historian of the Tudor era and here he turns to Henry VIII's chief minister.
Henry VIII was the organ-grinder and Cromwell the monkey but he was a most efficient and ruthless monkey. He excelled in the destruction of England's wonderful monasteries and priories in order to enrich the Crown and its supporters ('privatisation' is not really the best term; confiscation is better) and in creating a form of Tudor totalitarian state. He was greedy and corrupt and his greed brought his downfall. He was a man without a conscience. His actions furthered the Reformation although the reference to his destruction of 'some of the superstitious flummery that pervaded much of the Catholic Church' is a somewhat sweeping judgement. Reformation was needed; what England got was destruction. Yet Cromwell died a Catholic, did much to create the machinery of modern government and sometimes only did as others round him did. The author has done a considerable amount of work and has written a good and thoroughly readable book. (E.B.)
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