Tudor Church Militant
  • Published: 13 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141985077
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00

Tudor Church Militant

Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation

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7 Sep 2017
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13 Nov 2017
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The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to resounding defeat for his Protestant allies, his reign has a significance out of all proportion to its brief six-year span. For during its course England's rulers let loose an explosive form of Christianity within the realm. In this lavishly illustrated book, MacCulloch underlines the significance of Edward's turbulent and neglected reign. As well as the young king's life and beliefs he takes a fresh look at the ruthless politicians who jostled for position around him and explores the strange afterlife of Edward's attempt at the religious transformation of his kingdom. In this MacCulloch traces a connection through the civil wars of the 17th century up to the present day.
  • Published: 13 November 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141985077
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His Thomas Cranmer (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Award, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize; Reformation: Europe's House Divided (2003) won the Wolfson Prize for History and the British Academy Book Prize. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years and the BBC television series based on it appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, the world's largest history prize, in 2010. His television series How God Made the English aired on BBC2 in March 2012. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was knighted in the New Year's Honours List of 2012.

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Praise for Tudor Church Militant

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

Jerry Brotton, author of This Orient Isle

MacCulloch puts the young Edward at the centre of the action . . . as this excellent and lively study shows, his ghost continues to haunt the history of Anglicanism

Sunday Times

This is Reformation history as it should be written, not least because it resembles its subject matter: learned, argumentative, and, even when mistaken, never dull

Eamon Duffy, author of The Stripping of the Altars

One of the best historians writing in English today

Sunday Telegraph