The burning time : the story of the Smithfield martyrs

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Label

The burning time : the story of the Smithfield martyrs

Title remainder

the story of the Smithfield martyrs

Statement of responsibility

Virginia Rounding

Creator

• Rounding, Virginia

Subject

• Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
• Great Britain -- Religion
• Christian martyrs -- England | London -- History
• Persecution -- England | London -- History
• Smithfield (London, England) -- History
• History

Language

eng

Summary

Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London's most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics. Spanning all four reigns of British history's most remarkable dynasty, 'The Burning Time' is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next. The first martyrs were Catholics, who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII's break with the papacy. But with the accession of Henry's daughter Mary - soon to be nicknamed 'Bloody Mary' - the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants, who chose to burn rather than recant

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 942.1'2'0922
• 942.1'2'0922
• 942.1'2'0922
• 942.120922

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography