Ebook {Epub PDF} Fires of Faith: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy

 · Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven: Yale University Press, ) “Elizabeth’s reign is ‘golden,’ Mary’s is ‘bloody,’ the Church of England is ‘pure and apostolical,’ ‘Pope’ and ‘pagan’ go together.”. Thus in did Cardinal Newman summarize anti-Catholic prejudice in Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Fires of Faith.: Eamon Duffy. Yale University Press, - Religion - pages. 5 Reviews. 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. Above all, the burning alive of more than men and women for /5(5). ISBN With Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (), Eamon Duffy has produced a remarkable challenge to interpretations of Queen Mary’s attempt to restore Roman catholicism to England as ‘backward-looking, unimaginative, and reactionary’ (p. 1).Estimated Reading Time: 11 mins.

In his new book on "Catholic England under Mary Tudor", Eamon Duffy shows that the burnings were discriminatingly imposed, efficiently carried out and eloquently defended. 1 /0 Fires of Faith. Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (New Haven: Yale University Press, ) "Elizabeth's reign is 'golden,' Mary's is 'bloody,' the Church of England is 'pure and apostolical,' 'Pope' and 'pagan' go together.". Thus in did Cardinal Newman summarize anti-Catholic prejudice in. Eamon Duffy has done as much as anyone to make us rethink the religious history of late medieval and early modern England. His portrayal of the pre-Reformation devotional landscape has sometimes been excessively roseate, and commitment to Reformist ideas in some sectors of early Tudor society was a little more robust than he'd like to admit, but Duffy's basic points remain intact.

With Fires of Faith, Duffy peels away the myths and partisan accounts that have distorted the image of Mary's reign. ISBN With Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (), Eamon Duffy has produced a remarkable challenge to interpretations of Queen Mary’s attempt to restore Roman catholicism to England as ‘backward-looking, unimaginative, and reactionary’ (p. 1). The trouble is, it has never been easy to summon up much affection or respect for Mary’s Catholic revivalism. Aside from all the victims (almost of them) perishing in the flames, it has been customary to dismiss Mary’s policies as unimaginative: a swan song to medieval attitudes that ignored the bold, stable-cleansing aspirations of the Counter Reformation.