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Charlie Fenton
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‘Even by Foxe’s account, the vast majority of executions passed off quietly. Certainty there is nothing to suggest an upward curve of disapproval, nor an evidence that resistance was stronger to the burnings in 1558 than it had been in 1555. Many of the victims themselves were indeed by then more determined and more vehement’
— Oct 18, 2020 02:32PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘The greatest barrier to a positive assessment of the Marian restoration, however, remains the fact of the burning of more than 280 protestant men and women in just under four years, from February 1555 to November 1558. This was the most intense religious persecution of its kind anywhere in sixteenth-century Europe’
— Oct 16, 2020 01:58PM
