Treacherous Faith offers a new and ambitious cross-disciplinary account of the ways writers from the early English Reformation to the Restoration generated, sustained, or questioned cultural anxieties about heresy and heretics. This book examines the dark, often brutal story of defining, constructing, and punishing heretics in early modern England, and especially the ways writers themselves contributed to or interrogated the politics of religious fear-mongering and demonizing.
A striking and sympathetic portrait of England's first Queen, Mary I - whose character has been vilified for over 400 years. Instead of the bloodthirsty bigot of Protestant mythology, Mary Tudor emerges from the pages of this deeply-researched biography as a cultured renaissance princess, a courageous survivor of the violent power struggles that characterised the reigns of her father, Henry VIII, and brother Edward VI. The author does not belittle Mary's burning of heretics, which earned her the subriquet 'Bloody Mary', but she also had many endearing personal qualities and talents, not least the courage of leadership she showed in facing down Northumberland's rebellion.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 24 September 2010
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The Dune Series - Books I-VI
Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings. This Book is collection of six of his books. Books: 01 Dune, 02 Dune Messiah, 03 Children of Dune, 04 God Emperor of Dune, 05 Heretics of Dune, 06 Chapter House Dune
