Bloody Mary - Tudor Terror, 1553-1558 (Paperback)

When Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, succeeded to the throne of England in 1553 it was with wild rejoicing and a degree of popularity rarely seen on the accession of a British monarch. Yet at her death five years later she was almost universally reviled and hated by her people so much so that she was posthumously awarded the sobriquet Bloody Mary. Mary's revenge on the church and on a religion she hated was swift and total. Noblemen like the Duke of Northumberland, would-be queens like Lady Jane Grey, churchmen like Thomas Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley, Mary's fires or the executioner's axe ended the lives of all of them. During her brief reign she restored the Catholic faith to England and had over 280 Protestant martyrs burned at the stake. For a reign that looked so promising Mary's brief period in power brought the greatest officially sanctioned religious bloodletting the country had ever seen. And at the end, the stench of the execution fires and the grey smoke that settled like a pall across the country seemed to epitomize the reactionary forces that had assumed control.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword Military
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	A History of Terror
Release date:	June 2018
Authors:	Phil Carradice
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-5267-2865-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5267-2865-6
Barcode:	9781526728654

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