The Correspondence of Reginald Pole: Volume 1 a Calendar, 1518-1546: Beginnings to Legate of Viterbo

by Reginald Pole and Thomas F. Mayer

Reginald Pole (1500-1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury, was at the centre of reform controversies in the mid 16th century - antagonist of Henry VIII, a leader of the reform group in the Roman Church, and nearly elected pope (Julius III was elected in his stead). His voluminous correspondence - more than 2500 items, including letters to him - forms a major source for historians not only of England, but of Catholic Europe and the early Reformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754603261
• ISBN13: 9780754603269
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 394 Pages