On this day in 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey fell ill and died while on his way to London after being accused of treason.
Characterised as manipulative, power-hungry, and even an alter rex, Henry VIII’s right-hand man Wolsey has been typically depicted with a body mass to rival his political weight. Katherine Harvey asks if he was really the glutton of popular legend, and what such an image reveals about the link between the body, reputation, and power in Tudor England — https://publicdomainreview.org/…/iconology-of-a-cardinal-w…/
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