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  • Victorian Protestantism and Bloody Mary

    the legacy of religious persecution in Tudor England

    par Peter Wickins ...
    This is an important and intereseting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." By the beginning of the Victorian era after the somnolence of the 18th century, religious enthusiasm among both clergy and laity in the established Church arrived. This brought about such ... En savoir plus

    $10.07 CAD

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  • A Daughter's Love

    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

    par John Guy ...
    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... En savoir plus

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  • The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    par John Schofield ...
    Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. In this biography, John Schofield reveals ... En savoir plus

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  • Cromwell to Cromwell

    Reformation to Civil War

    par John Schofield ...
    The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience the will of the king should prevail. Yet just over 100 years later, ... En savoir plus

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  • Henry VIII

    The Tudor Tyrant

    par Richard Rex ...
    An accessible biography of Henry VIII by one of the country's leading Tudor experts. The future Henry VIII was born on 29 June 1491, the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. This talented, athletic and temperamental man might have proved something of a handful to his elder brother, Prince Arthur, the firstborn, had he survived to wear the crown. But Henry's life was changed forever when ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • 1536

    The Year that Changed Henry VIII

    One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent.1536 - focusing on a pivotal year in the life of the King - reveals a fuller portrait of this complex ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Heretics and Believers

    A History of the English Reformation

    par Peter Marshall ...
    A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English ReformationCenturies on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Thomas Cromwell

    Servant to Henry VIII

    Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Cromwell’s time in office from 1530 until his execution in 1540 was one of the most crucial periods in English history. This biography explores Cromwell’s relationship with Henry VIII and why it ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Going to Church in Medieval England

    par Nicholas Orme ...
    An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth centuryParish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Knights Templar on Trial

    The Trial of the Templars in the British Isles 1308-1311

    The trial of the Templars in the British Isles (1308-1311) is a largely unexplored area of history. Unlike the trial in France, where the Templars were tortured into confessing to unspeakable activities, in the British Isles there were no burnings and only three confessions after torture. Several Templars went missing, most of whom later reappeared. Outsiders told stories of abominable Templar ... En savoir plus

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  • Revolution

    The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720

    par Tim Harris ...
    To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Revolution brilliantly captures the sense that this was a great turning point in Britain's history, but ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400?1580, Second Edition

    par Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD