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Article: The Church of Mary Tudor.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Eamon Duffy and David Loades, eds. The Church of Mary Tudor.
Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xxxii + 348 pp. index. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3070-6.
History has not been kind to Mary Tudor. Compared to what followed, her reign seems like a brief but misguided attempt to hold back England's inevitable transformation to Protestantism. Compared to what came before, her regime looks like the regressive episode of a hysterical woman. Considered on its own terms, however, the regime appears much more complex, leading contributors to this volume of essays to reach far different conclusions about her reign: ...