Hornbeck II, J. Patrick. Remembering Wolsey

s attempt at surveying the representation and commemoration of Cardinal Wolsey, over five centuries, is unique in two manners.First, his study is comparative, examining a rich variety of sources that represented and commemorated Wolsey in several different ways.Second, he uses a chronological method, in what seems like a "long-durée" approach, to investigate some of the most influential anglophone sources-from just shortly after Wolsey's death in 1530 through the early part of the twenty-first century.In Remembering Wolsey, Hornbeck aims to show how historians and theologians over centuries have used the representation of Wolsey as a churchman and an ecclesiastical statesman, to contest the events known collectively "as the English Reformation" (4).Hornbeck further demonstrates that Wolsey's representation fits into three main prototypes as a form of analysis: Wolsey as a papist representing all that was wrong with Roman Catholicism, as an author of English schism by influencing King Henry VIII in a manner that broke England away from the Roman church, and as a "repentant sinner" (15, 50).Taking a chronological approach first, chapter 1 examines contemporary works of historians and theologians shortly after Wolsey's death in the Tudor era, overlapping with chapter 2, which analyzes parchments, pamphlets, and plays during the early Stuart period.Chapter 3 looks at texts and places of commemoration from the Restoration to Catholic emancipation.Chapter 4 focuses on three contrasting genres-historical fiction, academic history, and Civic Pageantry-followed in the next chapter by two popular examples of mass media during the twenty-first century.A selection of plates in the mid-section of the book provides a visual representation of Wolsey in art and architecture and in literary genres.If one needs to consult further sources of Wolsey's life, Hornbeck has referenced in his notes a significant number, which is outside the analysis of this text.According to Hornbeck, "the contest to shape Wolsey's" life began shortly after his death (19).One of the first and most influential contemporary sources was the biographical attempt by George Cavendish in the Metrical Visions and Life of Wolsey.Cavendish admits Wolsey's voracity for power

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