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The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
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Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics.

The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII's break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henry's daughter Mary - soon to be nicknamed 'Bloody Mary' - the charge of heresy was leveled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant.

At the center of Virginia Rounding's vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters. The first is Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwell's protg, who, almost uniquely, remained in a position of great power, influence and wealth under three Tudor monarchs, and who helped send many devout men and women to their deaths. The second is John Deane, Rector of St Bartholomew's, who was able, somehow, to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma and help others to survive.

The Burning Time is their story, but it is also the story of the hundreds of men and women who were put to the fire for their faith.

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  • Title The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
  • Author Virginia Rounding
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date 2017-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781250040640 / 1250040647
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.35 x 1.6 in (23.93 x 16.13 x 4.06 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Henry VIII,, Great Britain - History - Mary I, 1553-1558
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017023617
  • Dewey Decimal Code 272.6

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VIRGINIA ROUNDING is a writer, critic and former RLF Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Author of biographies of Catherine the Great, Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, and of Grandes Horizontales, a study of French courtesans, she also contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines, such as the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times.

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