Characters of the Reformation
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Reformation
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Publication Year
1958
Publisher
Image Books, United States
Pages
200
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Description
The Reformation . . . and the men who made it.
In this famous book Hilaire Belloc, best-known Catholic historian of our century, achieved a portrait of the Reformation in one master stroke. His inspired idea was to profile key men and women who fought for or against this great religious upheaval.
This, indeed, was Belloc's forte: history conceived and told in terms of people. What a gallery he has assembled! Impulsive Henry VIII and his heroic Queen, Catherine of Aragon . . . vacillating Cranmer and the Queen who had him burned, Mary Tudor . . . the infamous Cromwells . . . Thomas More, illustrious saint for laymen . . . Henry of Navarre, the Huguenot who decided that "Paris was worth a Mass!" . . . Richelieu, the brilliant cardinal who put his country ahead of his faith. In all, twenty-three fascinating profiles bring the Reformation alive in the bright, virile prose of one of the great literary stylists of our time.
Distinguished Reformation historian, Garrett Mattingly, has this to say about Characters of the Reformation: "The information conveyed is elementary and the language is meticulously clear and simple. But in spite of its popular form, this is perhaps the book from which Mr. Belloc's position as a historian can be most accurately judged. He has never written more vigorously and succinctly, and he has compressed his whole series of full-length biographies from Wolsey to Richelieu as to make the longer works practically superfluous to anyone seeking to understand his method and point of view." Saturday Review.
Taken from the back cover.
In this famous book Hilaire Belloc, best-known Catholic historian of our century, achieved a portrait of the Reformation in one master stroke. His inspired idea was to profile key men and women who fought for or against this great religious upheaval.
This, indeed, was Belloc's forte: history conceived and told in terms of people. What a gallery he has assembled! Impulsive Henry VIII and his heroic Queen, Catherine of Aragon . . . vacillating Cranmer and the Queen who had him burned, Mary Tudor . . . the infamous Cromwells . . . Thomas More, illustrious saint for laymen . . . Henry of Navarre, the Huguenot who decided that "Paris was worth a Mass!" . . . Richelieu, the brilliant cardinal who put his country ahead of his faith. In all, twenty-three fascinating profiles bring the Reformation alive in the bright, virile prose of one of the great literary stylists of our time.
Distinguished Reformation historian, Garrett Mattingly, has this to say about Characters of the Reformation: "The information conveyed is elementary and the language is meticulously clear and simple. But in spite of its popular form, this is perhaps the book from which Mr. Belloc's position as a historian can be most accurately judged. He has never written more vigorously and succinctly, and he has compressed his whole series of full-length biographies from Wolsey to Richelieu as to make the longer works practically superfluous to anyone seeking to understand his method and point of view." Saturday Review.
Taken from the back cover.
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