The perils of piety in Tudor England
Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski, who are researching thousands of 16th-century coroners' inquests reports, reveal how Elizabethans' attempts to get closer to God often ended with them meeting their maker...
This article was first published in the July 2015 issue of BBC History Magazine
Religious festivals
Death from above
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