Item #140910 THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION. O. S. B. Francis Aidan Gasquet.

THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION

London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. Later printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth. vii, 406p. Shelf wear present on cover, especially at corners and spine edges. Pages are marked with pen and pencil. Foxing present on page edges and some pages throughout. Front endpapers beginning to crack. Book is in acceptable condition. Item #140910

Francis Aidan Gasquet, O.S.B. (5 October 1846 – 5 April 1929 in Rome) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He was created Cardinal in 1914. This book is an historical sketch of the religious life and thought of the English people in the period preceding Henry VIII's rejection of papal authority and the beginning of the English phase of the Reformation.

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