Rolling Back the Reformation
Eamon Duffy: Bloody Mary’s Church, 7 February 2008
“... college in Rome which would do for England what the Germanicum was to do for Germany. Ever since Henry VIII’s break with Rome, the English pilgrim hostel in via Monser-rato had been a largely wasted resource. The hostel, however, embodied one of Pole’s favourite apologetic themes, the ardent loyalty of the English to the papacy from Saxon times ... ”