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Fires of faith

by Eamon Duffy

Counter-ReformationReligionChurch historyCatholic ChurchHistoryMary i, queen of england, 1516-1558Pole, reginald, 1500-1558Catholic church, great britain

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.

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