Martyrs of Henry VIII : repression, defiance, sacrifice
Matusiak, John (Historian)2019
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When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prophetess, burst into his presence and warned him that he was 'so abominable in the sight of God that he was not worthy to tread on hallowed ground'. Two years later, the self-same 'Holy Maid of Kent' would suffer a grisly fate at Tyburn and trigger a wave of bloody repression that consumed not only Sir Thomas More, but two other less widely known individuals, whose exceptional sacrifices were, arguably, even more compelling. 'Martyrs of Henry VIII' is a joint biography of Tudor England's martyrs.
Main title:
Martyrs of Henry VIII : repression, defiance, sacrifice / John Matusiak.
Author:
Matusiak, John (Historian), author
Imprint:
Stroud : The History Press, 2019.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780750987950 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2270838
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