Edward VI (1537-1553) was king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553. His short reign witnessed the introduction of the English Prayer Book and the Forty-two Articles, and thus this period was important in the development of English Protestantism....

STEPHEN ALFORD. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward Vl. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp xiii + 233, bibliography, index. $55.00. Scholarship addressing the political and religious significance of Edward VI's reign has been in a state of fragmentation. Some...

Edward VI was not, as many historians have held, a pawn of elder statesmen. He was highly educated, ruthless, increasingly involved in governmental affairs, intended to assume full royal power when he became 16, and excluded Mary Tudor from royal succession in favor of...

There is a reason why reports of a rare strain of tuberculosis attracted worldwide attention: a history as scary as the plague.More than 4,000 years ago, tuberculosis killed an Egyptian whose mummified remains were dug up; the case was first described in 1910. Hippocrates called...