Of Human Frailty: A Biographical Novel of Thomas Cranmer

By Eric Malpass

Thomas Cranmer is a gentle, unassuming scholar when a chance meeting sweeps him away from the security and tranquillity of Cambridge to the harsh magnificence of Henry VIII's court. As a supporter of Henry he soon rises to prominence as Archbishop of Canterbury. Eric Malpass paints a fascinating picture of Reformation England and its prominent figures: the brilliant, charismatic but utterly ruthless Henry VIII, the exquisite but scheming Anne Boleyn and the fanatical Mary Tudor. But it is the paradoxical Thomas Cranmer who dominates the story. A tormented man, he is torn between valour and cowardice; a man with a loving heart who finds himself hated by many; and a man of God who makes the terrifying discovery that he must suffer and die for his beliefs. Thomas Cranmer is a man of simple virtue, whose only fault is his all too human frailty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755102002
• ISBN13: 9780755102006
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.8"