Why did Peter love this book?
Weâre obsessed with the Tudors, but the ordinary people of sixteenth-century England are all too often left out of the picture.
Mark Stoyleâs book invites us to reconsider a dimly remembered moment in time when commoners demanded to be heard. In the summer of 1549, a large popular rebellion against the religious changes of the Reformation erupted in Devon and Cornwall and threatened to shake the foundations of the state.
It is a compelling and tragic story, which ended with slaughter and retribution on an immense scale. Stoyleâs telling of it is a triumphant demonstration that meticulously researched historical scholarship can also be enjoyably readable and emotionally engaging.
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