Commotion time – Edward VI’s Reformation

20 February 2025, The Tablet

Break with Rome (l to r): Henry VIII, Edward VI, Dukes of Somerset & Northumberland, Thomas Cranmer, John Russell (unknown artist c.1575)

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Reformation history

If the 1548 iconoclasm plunged into “deserved oblivion the monuments of popery”, it has in turn become a subject, like some embarrassing family skeleton, never to be mentioned.

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