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Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Boy King
Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation
$19.95, paperback
978-0-520-23402-4
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302 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 93 b/w illustrations
March 2002, Not available in British Commonwealth
Categories: History; Christianity; European History; Intellectual History
March 2002, Not available in British Commonwealth
Categories: History; Christianity; European History; Intellectual History
"An exciting and distinguished bookÉ. MacCulloch combines exact and penetrating scholarship with a vitality of exposition that is rare in writing on Tudor history."—Blair Worden, Sunday Telegraph
"MacCulloch's enviable ease in unraveling complex theological and political positionsÉmake[s] this a formidable achievement. A dramatic period of English history will never look quite the same again."—The Independent (London)
"Provocative and sparkling (let's say it, brilliant)É. MacCulloch argues with great elegance that the Edwardian reformation was a crucial moment in the development of the Anglican Church and the forging of England's Protestant identity."—Robbie Millen, The Spectator
"MacCulloch puts the young Edward at the centre of the action. Skillfully using the evidence of his officially signed documents, personal manuscripts and draft papers, he shows Edward emerging to take an active role in council and government. . . . Governmental and indeed royal support allowed a small minority of committed evangelicals (foreigners called them Protestants after their 'protest' at the diet of Speyer) to destroy one church and to build another. . . Edward died aged 15, before all the dreams of the hotter Protestants had been realized. But, as this excellent and lively study shows, his ghost continues to haunt the history of Anglicanism."—Kevin Sharpe, Sunday Times
"MacCulloch's enviable ease in unraveling complex theological and political positionsÉmake[s] this a formidable achievement. A dramatic period of English history will never look quite the same again."—The Independent (London)
"Provocative and sparkling (let's say it, brilliant)É. MacCulloch argues with great elegance that the Edwardian reformation was a crucial moment in the development of the Anglican Church and the forging of England's Protestant identity."—Robbie Millen, The Spectator
"MacCulloch puts the young Edward at the centre of the action. Skillfully using the evidence of his officially signed documents, personal manuscripts and draft papers, he shows Edward emerging to take an active role in council and government. . . . Governmental and indeed royal support allowed a small minority of committed evangelicals (foreigners called them Protestants after their 'protest' at the diet of Speyer) to destroy one church and to build another. . . Edward died aged 15, before all the dreams of the hotter Protestants had been realized. But, as this excellent and lively study shows, his ghost continues to haunt the history of Anglicanism."—Kevin Sharpe, 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: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
Diarmaid MacCulloch illuminates the significance of Edward's turbulent and neglected reign. He takes a fresh look at the life and beliefs of the young king and of the ruthless politicians who jostled for power around him. He analyzes the single-minded strategy of the Protestant Revolution and assesses the support it had among the people of England.