Hilaire Belloc - Cranmer
Hardback | 270 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-1-5
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 52 years
A timid, furtive, scholar, unduly raised to aid the king’s divorce,
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer lived a double life. Under the
penalty of public ministry he burned within – forced to put his
best years into the system which he yearned in secret to destroy,
and to send back to the continent his own unlawful bride.
When freed of his old master, Cranmer was unleashed – his
Calvinistic vision forced upon the mass of Englishmen. Revolts
were crushed with hired artillery, shrines and churches looted
(the monasteries already plundered), and images destroyed.
Cranmer’s artful hand passed over the policy of the new rich
which would con firm their power: the destruction of England’s
founding and beloved Catholic faith.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the deceitful,
suave, obeisant cleric: a betrayer of his benefactors, and the
author of a novel national liturgy, who played a chief part in one
of Europe’s great dramas and is a symbol of the transformation
of the English mind.
Hardback | 270 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-1-5
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 52 years
A timid, furtive, scholar, unduly raised to aid the king’s divorce,
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer lived a double life. Under the
penalty of public ministry he burned within – forced to put his
best years into the system which he yearned in secret to destroy,
and to send back to the continent his own unlawful bride.
When freed of his old master, Cranmer was unleashed – his
Calvinistic vision forced upon the mass of Englishmen. Revolts
were crushed with hired artillery, shrines and churches looted
(the monasteries already plundered), and images destroyed.
Cranmer’s artful hand passed over the policy of the new rich
which would con firm their power: the destruction of England’s
founding and beloved Catholic faith.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the deceitful,
suave, obeisant cleric: a betrayer of his benefactors, and the
author of a novel national liturgy, who played a chief part in one
of Europe’s great dramas and is a symbol of the transformation
of the English mind.
Hardback | 270 pages | Mysterium Press | ISBN: 978-1-0685895-1-5
A re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 52 years
A timid, furtive, scholar, unduly raised to aid the king’s divorce,
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer lived a double life. Under the
penalty of public ministry he burned within – forced to put his
best years into the system which he yearned in secret to destroy,
and to send back to the continent his own unlawful bride.
When freed of his old master, Cranmer was unleashed – his
Calvinistic vision forced upon the mass of Englishmen. Revolts
were crushed with hired artillery, shrines and churches looted
(the monasteries already plundered), and images destroyed.
Cranmer’s artful hand passed over the policy of the new rich
which would con firm their power: the destruction of England’s
founding and beloved Catholic faith.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the deceitful,
suave, obeisant cleric: a betrayer of his benefactors, and the
author of a novel national liturgy, who played a chief part in one
of Europe’s great dramas and is a symbol of the transformation
of the English mind.