Thomas Wolsey and the Books of Cardinal College, Oxford | The Wolsey Manuscripts
- ️Sun Nov 05 2017
Published on 11/05/2017 | Originally published Bodleian Library Record, Volume 28, Number 2, October 2015
The last great collegiate foundations of the Middle Ages were two sisterhouses established at Ipswich and Oxford by Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/1–1530), both of them ostentatiously named ‘Cardinal College’ and both raised to a level of grandeur as to make it plain that the magnificent Wolsey was intending to dwarf in scale all existing models. Cardinal College, Oxford, is the focus of this paper.