イングランド王国の政治家 初代エセックス伯トマス・クロムウェル Since the sixteenth century we have been fascinated by Henry VIII and the man who stood beside him, guiding him, enriching him, and enduring the kings insatiable appetites and violent outbursts until Henry ordered his beheading in July 1540. After a decade of sleuthing in the royal archives, Diarmaid MacCulloch has emerged with a tantalizing new understanding of Henrys mercurial chief minister, the inscrutable and utterly compelling Thomas Cromwell.