The burning time
Subtitle: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant martyrs of London
By: Virginia Rounding
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781250040640
Subjects: Persecution; Martyrdom; Church history; Christian martyrs; History; Christian heretics; Christianity
Description: xvi, 459 pages : 25 cm
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Boiling, burning and ambition; title: Fuel for the fire; title: The making of martyrs; title: Recantations and reversals; title: Dissolution and discipline; title: 'Lo, faithless men against me rise'; title: Denunciations and near-escapes; title: Protestantism in the ascendant; title: 'Turn, and turn, and turn again'; title: Dominicans in Smithfield; title: Ceremonies of martyrdom; title: 'I will pay my vows to thee, oh Smithfield'; title: Matters of conscience; title: Constancy and conflagration; title: 'By the light of burning martyrs'.