Fires of faith
Subtitle: the reconstruction of Catholicism in Mary Tudor's England
By: Eamon Duffy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780300152166
Subjects: Mary -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1516-1558 -- Religion; Pole, Reginald, -- 1500-1558; Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 16th century; Counter-Reformation -- England; England -- Church history -- History -- 16th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.