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Author Duffy, Eamon.

Title Fires of faith : Catholic England under Mary Tudor / Eamon Duffy
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ) : illustrations, maps
Contents Rolling Back the Revolution -- Cardinal Pole -- Contesting the Reformation: Plain and Godly Treatises -- From Persuasion to Force -- The Theatre of Justice -- The Hunters and the Hunted -- The Battle for Hearts and Minds -- The Defence of the Burnings and the Problem of Martyrdom -- The Legacy: Inventing the Counter-Reformation
Summary 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
Notes Copyright © Eamon Duffy, reprinted with corrections 2009, first paperback edition 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558 -- Religion
Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558.
Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558
Pole, Reginald, 1500-1558
Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 16th century
Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church
Counter-Reformation -- England
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
Counter-Reformation
Religion
England -- Church history -- 16th century.
England
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008049807
ISBN 9780300160451
0300160453