Reformation Cardinal

Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy & England

“Beautifully designed, this book is printed on Novatech Digital Silk White paper and is richly illustrated with images from the collections of New College Library, Oxford, Lambeth Palace Library, the Venerable English College, Rome, and other renowned collections from across the world.”

Available for purchase from New College Library, Oxford

Reformation Cardinal
Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy & England

Our ten-chapter book, written by distinguished Reformation and Counter-Reformation scholars, places Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500–1558), England’s last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, in the context of his turbulent times.

It provides a fresh and invaluable account of this complex and charismatic character, who has been—all too often—unfairly portrayed as someone who was on the wrong side of history.

Our book is produced with the generous financial support of the New College Ludwig Fund for the Humanities.