This Virtual Reading Group Extra with Dr. Shannon Chamberlain and Christy Lynn Horpedahl is a brief conversation about about the end of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
The final chapters of Wolf Hall see the execution-or martyrdom-of Thomas More, Cromwell's longtime enemy and the last obstacle in the way of England's separation from Rome. Cromwell becomes the king's "own dear Cromwell," but at a high price. Chamberlain and Horpedahl talk about the women of Wolf Hall, especially Jane Seymore, how Mantel and Hume compliment and challenge each other, and how Thomas Cromwell is like Michael Corleone in The Godfather.
Christopher Hitchens' Atlantic article on Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, "The Men Who Made England" (mentioned by Chamberlain):
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Quotation from the beginning of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (mentioned by Horpedahl):
Frères humains qui après nous vivez
N'ayez les cuers contre nous endurciz.
Brother men, you who live after us,
Do not harden your hearts against us.
François Villon
To admire a first edition of David Hume's History of England from the Liberty Fund's Rare Book Room:
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You can sign up for future virtual reading groups here:
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Shannon Chamberlain is a tutor at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, and this conversation is, in part, inspired by a virtual reading group hosted by Liberty Fund on The Messiness of Progress: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and David Hume’s Essays and Histories.
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15 окт 2024
