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Edward VI (Paperback, New Ed)
Loot Price: R523
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Edward VI (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The English Monarchs Series
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Loot Price R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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Edward VI was the son of Henry VIII and his second wife, Jane
Seymour. He ruled for only six years (1547-1553) and died at the
age of sixteen. But these were years of fundamental importance in
the history of the English state, and in particular of the English
church. This new biography reveals for the first time that, despite
his youth, Edward had a significant personal impact. Jennifer Loach
draws a fresh portrait of the boy king as a highly precocious, well
educated, intellectually confident, and remarkably decisive youth,
with clear views on the future of the English church. Loach also
offers a new understanding of Edward's health, arguing that the
cause of his death was a severe infection of the lungs rather than
tuberculosis, the commonly accepted diagnosis. The author views
Edward not as a sickly child but as a healthy and vigorous boy,
devoted to hunting and tournaments like any young aristocrat of the
day. This book tells the story of the monarch and of his time. It
supplies the dramatic context in which the short reign of Edward VI
was played out-the momentous religious changes, factional fights,
and popular risings. And it offers vivid details on Edward's
increasing absorption in politics, his consciousness of his role as
supreme head of the English church, his determination to lay the
foundation for a Protestant regime, and how his failure in this
ambition brought England to the brink of civil war.
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