The Map of Christendom (Part 2) / To Wolf Hall

Wolf Crawl Week 17: Monday 22 April – Sunday 28 April

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Welcome to week seventeen of Wolf Crawl

This week, we are reading the second part of “The Map of Christendom, 1534–1535” and the final chapter, appropriately named, “To Wolf Hall, July 1535”. Cromwell shrugs off death and More casts off life. And it all ends in slaughter on the road to Wolf Hall.

You will find everything you need for this read-along on the main Cromwell trilogy page of my website, including:

• The reading schedule

• Weekly updates, like this one

• Plot summaries for each character

• Online resources about Mantel’s writing and Thomas Cromwell

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In this week’s post:

1. This week’s story

2. This week’s characters

3. This week’s theme: It all ends in slaughter

4. Tangent: Two dukes on the run

5. Footnote: End times in Münster

6. Footnote: The conquest of Tunis

7. Tangent: The bald fact

8. Footnote: Charterhouse traitors

9. Tangent: King Cromwell

10. Tangent: The new map of Christendom

11. Quote of the week: Fear of plain words

12. Next week