Introduction

[Manuel]

This may well be Belloc's most interesting work. It includes Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, St. Thomas More, Cranmer, Calvin, Mary Tudor, Mary Stuart, Cardinal Richelieu and many others--23 in all--analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, motives and mistakes and showing how this or that seemingly insignificant factor actually changed the course of history. An amazing book!

[Jill]

How can he assert that the Reformation would have failed except for what happened in England, and we be enjoying a Christian civilization today? What about Luther, Calvin and the rest? And the forces of secularism that have brought us to our post-Christian era!

[Fonch]

Jill i explain you. Belloc did not say in This book but in "The Europe and the faith" Belloc considered that if England Had followed being Catholic the german States had been defeated easily, besides England was the most powerful country since the 18th century if England Had not accepted the Reformation the history of the world would have been very different. The struggles of the secularism would have beenimpossible without the Reformation had not get weak the catholicism moreover was England Who get poison France with the Ilustration Montesquieu, Voltaire were inspired by the England of the Glorious of 1688.