Fires of Faith : Catholic England under Mary Tudor

by Eamon Duffy

• ISBN13: 9780300168891
• ISBN10: 0300168896
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-10-26
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The reign of Mary Tudor is remembered as an era when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. The burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their religious beliefs seared the rule of 'Bloody Mary' into the protestant imagination. In this controversial reassessment a leading reformation historian argues that Mary's regime was neither inept nor backward-looking. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Rolling Back the Revolution	p. 1
Cardinal Pole	p. 29
Contesting the Reformation: Plain and Godly Treatises	p. 57
From Persuasion to Force	p. 79
The Theatre of Justice	p. 102
The Hunters and the Hunted	p. 128
The Battle for Hearts and Minds	p. 155
The Defence of the Burnings and the Problem of Martyrdom	p. 171
The Legacy: Inventing the Counter-Reformation	p. 188
Notes	p. 209
Select Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 239
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