The Burning Time
the story of the smithfield martyrs
$34.15
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2018
Summary
Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew’s Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it became the location of London’s most famous meat market. Yet in Tudor England, Smithfield had another, more sinister use: the public execution of heretics.
Spanning the reigns of British history’s most remarkable dynasty, The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447241089 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447241088 |
| Author: | Virginia Rounding |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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Gruesomely entertaining
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About The Author
Virginia Rounding
Virginia Rounding is a writer, critic and former RLF Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Author of biographies of Catherine the Great, Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, and of Grandes Horizontales, a study of French courtesans, she also contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines. She is involved in the current life of Smithfield as an elected City of London councillor, known as a ‘Common Councilman’, for the area.
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