former master, as well as speaking the about the final days, however ‘truth’ Cardinal’s subjective that truth might have subsequently appeared. Though it is difficult to ascertain exactly what the impact of the and might have been Life Metrical Visions during the Tudor period, the mere existence and survival of such texts (through authorial efforts as well as the anonymous transmission of manuscripts) Cavendish’s indicate that Wolsey was not wholly conceived of as the mid-Tudor villain posterity has assumed him to be.
former master, as well as speaking the ‘truth’ about the Cardinal’s final days, however subjective that truth might have subsequently appeared. Though it is difficult to ascertain exactly what the impact of the Life and Metrical Visions might have been during the Tudor period, the mere existence and survival of such texts (through Cavendish’s authorial efforts as well as the anonymous transmission of manuscripts) indicate that Wolsey was not wholly conceived of as the mid-Tudor villain posterity has assumed him to be.
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