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Let’s take a look at a moment that may have proved foundational to Thomas Wolsey’s eventual fall. We’re going to talk about the Eltham Ordinances…

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Linked videos and playlists:

Wolsey – Material and the Man:    • Cardinal Wolsey: Material and the Man  


Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of Thomas Wolsey by an unknown artist (1589-1595, based on a work of circa 1520). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Henry VIII, attributed to Meynnart Wewyck (c.1509). Held by the Denver Art Museum.

Drawing of Henry VIII dining in his privy chamber from the circle of Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1548). Held by the British Museum.

Illuminated title page of Valor Ecclesiasticus, the survey of the lands and wealth of England's monasteries prepared for Henry VIII (1535). Held by the National Archives.

“The Great Chain of Being” from Retorica Christiana, published by Diego Valdes (1579). Digitised by Getty Research.

Portrait of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by the “Master of the Brandon Portrait” (c.1530). Held in a private collection.

English: Portrait of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham by an unknown artist (1520). Held by Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Copy of a painting of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, from Brenan, Gerald and Edward Phillips Statham. The House of Howard. Vol I. London Hutchinson and Co., 1907. 86

Screenshots of excerpts from the Eltham Ordinances from https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e...

Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown Netherlandish artist (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of a Man in Red from the German/Netherlandish school (c. 1530-1550). Held by the Royal Collection.

Detail from “The Westminster Tournament Roll” showing Henry VIII tilting in front of Katherine of Aragon (1511). Courtesy College of Arms.

Copy of an engraving showing Henry VIII in Council, from Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England of 1577. Reproduced in A Brief History of Wood-engraving from its Invention by Joseph Cundall, 1895.


Quoted texts:

The Eltham Ordinances reproduced at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/e...

Also consulted, were:

Relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.


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