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Susan Loughlin's Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage PDF

By Susan Loughlin

ISBN-10: 0750967331

ISBN-13: 9780750967334

Autumn 1536. Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are useless. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and nonetheless awaits his longed for male inheritor. Disaffected conservatives in England see a chance for a go back to Rome and an finish to non secular experimentation, yet Thomas Cromwell has different ideas.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries has started and the ebook of the Lutheran motivated Ten Articles of the Anglican Church has undefined. The obstinate monarch, enticed by way of monastic wealth, is set to not switch direction. worry and resentment is unleashed in northern England within the greatest spontaneous rebellion opposed to a Tudor monarch – the Pilgrimage of Grace – during which 30,000 males soak up fingers opposed to the king.

This e-book examines the facts for that competition and the plentiful examples of religiously inspired dissent. It additionally highlights the rhetoric, present and retribution utilized by the Crown to implement its coverage and weigh down the opposition.

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