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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Paperback / softback Book

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada Paperback / softback

Part of the History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth 12 Volume Set series

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James Anthony Froude (1818–94), historian and disciple of Carlyle, published this twelve-volume history of the English Reformation between 1858 and 1870.

The work is shaped by Froude's firm belief that the Reformation enabled the development of modernity and the rise of 'progressive intelligence' in England.

His polemical stance was criticised by some historians, but his engaging narrative style and elegant prose made his work extremely popular with the general public, and the books were highly influential.

The first six volumes consider the course of the Reformation from the break with Rome until the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, and the remaining six recount the reign of Elizabeth I, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Froude changed the title of this eleventh volume, having decided that the Armada marked the defeat of Catholicism in England, and the appropriate conclusion to his work.

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