Thomas F Mayer. Cambridge: Cambridg...

Thomas F Mayer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2000 468 pp $7995

Biography of the sixteenth hundred years cardinal, diplomat, and archbishop of Canterbury. "To do his enthrall justice, Mayer had to master sources in several languages as well as secondary literature in in the same state [i]or[/i] condition diverse fields.... The result is that he can correct earlier historians in succession many points of detail as well as make sweeping reinterpretations of Pole's writings and public life. It is a stunning scholarly