Richard Hunne and the English Reformation (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

It is no exaggeration to say that, under God, Richard Hunne brought the Reformation in England to its tipping point. He challenged the Church of Rome like no one else before him, and with his use of England’s laws he set church and state together on a collision course which was afterwards to bring down the power of the papacy here in England. His case is little discussed these days, our revisionists preferring to tell the world that the Reformation was brought about solely by the love of Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. But his love for that woman was merely a sideshow. The real battle was fought in the king’s law courts when Anne was just a child, and what Richard Hunne achieved there was to end 500 years ago this year in his murder at the hands of the Roman church. Here is the full story of what he achieved, complete with the many surviving legal documents – translated out of their Latin. It is a valuable resource for any student of the Reformation, for students of pre-Reformation law and of 16th-century jurisprudence. But above all, it is valuable for the light that it sheds on what really led up to the Reformation.