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Author: Alan Neame Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 406
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Was the Holy Maid of Kent a lunatic, a dupe, an imposter, or a saint? The question has puzzled historians for four centuries. The author answers it in the first full-length study of her life to be written. In reconstructing her life from fragmentary records, he has drawn the first authentic portrait of the gifted and courageous woman who was the first victim of Henry VIII's religious reformation. Later victims, notably her friends Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher, have achieved greater fame, but hers was the fearless example that inspired them. Stripping away the degrading and often nonsensical legends, the author has restored a forgotten martyr to Christendom and a lost heroine to English history.
Author: Alan Neame Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 406
Book Description
Was the Holy Maid of Kent a lunatic, a dupe, an imposter, or a saint? The question has puzzled historians for four centuries. The author answers it in the first full-length study of her life to be written. In reconstructing her life from fragmentary records, he has drawn the first authentic portrait of the gifted and courageous woman who was the first victim of Henry VIII's religious reformation. Later victims, notably her friends Sir Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher, have achieved greater fame, but hers was the fearless example that inspired them. Stripping away the degrading and often nonsensical legends, the author has restored a forgotten martyr to Christendom and a lost heroine to English history.
Author: Ethan H. Shagan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521525558 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as people attempted to co-opt state power for their own purposes. This study argues, then, that the English Reformation was not done to people, it was done with them in a dynamic process of engagement between government and people. As such, it answers the twenty-year-old scholarly dilemma of how the English Reformation could have succeeded despite the inherent conservatism of the English people, and it presents a genuinely post-revisionist account of one of the central events of English history.
Author: Diane Watt Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 9780859916141 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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"The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. [...] Through prophecy they were often able to intervene in the religious and political discourse of their times: the role of God's secretary gave them the opportunity to act and speak autonomously and publicly"--Back cover.
Author: Lissa Bryan Publisher: ISBN: 9781612132143 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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Journey back in time to Tudor England with a tale of romance, intrigue, and the Celtic legends of the selkies. Will Somers has spent his life alone, thinking himself unlovable. Emma is a selkie; a creature of myth and magic, one of the immortal fae-folk of the sea. When Will finds her sleeping on a beach, he recalls the tales his grandmother told him of selkie maidens taken for wives. He seizes this unexpected chance to have a wife and family of his own and steals her pelt, binding her to him. Only when it is willingly returned will she be free. Emma has never experienced life on land and can barely contain her excitement and curiosity. She has to learn to adapt quickly to human customs, for Will is headed to the glittering, dangerous court of Henry VIII to serve as the king's fool. It's a world where careless words can lead to the scaffold and the smallest gesture is loaded with political implications. Anne Boleyn is charmed by Emma's naivete and soothing selkie magic and wants Emma for her own fool. Anne is soon to become a wife herself, and the Queen of England. But wearing the crown does not ensure her own safety, and at Anne's side, Emma becomes entangled in the dark intrigues of the court, trying to stay afloat in the turbulent seas swept by the storms of the mercurial king. Can Will protect the woman he loves from the dangers that lurk in every shadow? Emma uses her selkie magic to soothe the king's temper, and Will uses his humor, but Henry's moods become increasingly erratic. Theirs is a vocation that provides them some protection, but in Henry VIII's court, no one is safe. Circa regna tonat: Around the throne, the thunder rolls.
Author: Sharon L. Jansen Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780312160906 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 232
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Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior looks at the cases of several women charged with treason in early sixteenth-century England: Margaret Cheyne, who was executed for the part she played in a failed rebellion; Elizabeth Barton, for her prophecies against Henry VIII's divorce; Elizabeth Wood, for spreading "treasonous rumors" about the king; and Mabel Brigge, for a "black fast" she directed against him. Sharon L. Jansen explores the roles these women played during a period of religious, political, institutional, and social turmoil; describes each woman's particular acts of protest; analyzes how, why, and when these sorts of actions were judged to threaten the peace and order of the realm; and suggests that each of these women's "crimes" were viewed as "dangerous talk and strange behavior" because of their perceived seditious threat to the peace and stability of the reign of Henry VIII.
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