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Fires Of Faith

Fires Of Faith

Fires Of Faith
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Fires Of Faith Paperback - 2010

by Eamon Duffy,

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  • Title Fires Of Faith
  • Author Eamon Duffy,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 2010-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9164660
  • ISBN 9780300168891 / 0300168896
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.94 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.09 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 274.206
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

The renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars takes a new and controversial look at the reign of England's "Bloody Mary"

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of "Bloody Mary" into the protestant imagination as an alien aberration in the onward and upward march of the English-speaking peoples.

In this controversial reassessment, the renowned reformation historian Eamon Duffy argues that Mary's regime was neither inept nor backward looking. Led by the queen's cousin, Cardinal Reginald Pole, Mary's church dramatically reversed the religious revolution imposed under the child king Edward VI. Inspired by the values of the European Counter-Reformation, the cardinal and the queen reinstated the papacy and launched an effective propaganda campaign through pulpit and press.

Even the most notorious aspect of the regime, the burnings, proved devastatingly effective. Only the death of the childless queen and her cardinal on the same day in November 1558 brought the protestant Elizabeth to the throne, thereby changing the course of English history.

About the author

Eamon Duffy is professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many prize-winning books, including The Stripping of the Altars, Saints and Sinners, The Voices of Morebath, and Marking the Hours, all published by Yale University Press.
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