Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor

by Eamon Duffy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300168896
• ISBN13: 9780300168891
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"