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. In this text, Eamon Duffy argues that Mary's regime was neither inept nor backward-looking.
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ISBN:9780300168891 (pbk)
ISBN:9780300152166 (alk. paper)
ISBN:0300152167 (alk. paper)
Physical Description:print xiii, 249 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher:New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
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