King of England Edward VI - Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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TUDOR CHURCH MILITANT

Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation

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First published by Allen Lane 1999

Published in Penguin Books 2001

This edition published 2001

Copyright Diarmaid MacCulloch, 1999

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Cover: Coronation procession of King Edward VI; 1547; Black and White Illustration Timewatch Images/Alamy Stock Photo

Cover design by Antonio Colao

ISBN: 978-0-141-98508-4

A challenging, elegant and persuasive biography of an unjustly neglected king Jerry Brotton

MacCulloch plays his cards straight and indicates exactly the weight of each piece of evidence he presents. The pictures are more than decorative, and there is a fascinating detective story behind one image of Henry VIII on his deathbed. It is, moreover, a rare pleasure to read an academic who does not torture the English language. Judging from the footnotes, there is much more to come from Diarmaid MacCulloch. We can look forward to it Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph

Were lucky that MacCulloch is an elegant writer as well as a fine scholar with new and important material. In an age where our heritage industry freezes history, suspends debate, it is glorious to welcome back arguments that history persists, that it can be seen accurately but yet in utterly different ways Michael Pye, Scotsman

Thorough grounding in evidence, combined with that most difficult of historical skills - Janus-like looking at the past while refusing to allow knowledge of the future to colour interpretation - has produced a work that illustrates the best virtues of historical scholarship Christopher Webb, The Times Higher Education Supplement

MacCulloch argues with great elegance that the Edwardian Reformation was a crucial moment in the development of the Anglican Church and the forging of Englands Protestant identity [a] provocative and sparkling (lets say it, brilliant) read Robbie Millen, Spectator

This is another outstanding book on English Reformation history by the Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University the author establishes his case by a detailed historical reconstruction, drawing on much fresh material, and he carries the reader along by his graphic style. There are also no less than 92 significant illustrations The Rev. Dr Roger Beckwith, English Churchman

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europes House Divided 14901700 (2004) won the Wolfson Prize and the British Academy Prize. A History of Christianity (2010), which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, was awarded the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman Prizes. His Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh were published in 2013 as Silence: A Christian History. His most recent television series (2015) was Sex and the Church and his most recent book was All Things Made New (2016). He was knighted in 2012.

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