The Dwarves and the Onion Domes
Ferdinand Mount: Those Pushy Habsburgs, 24 September 2020
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
by Martyn Rady.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £30, May,978 0 241 33262 7 Show More
by Martyn Rady.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £30, May,
“... also egging Mary on with her programme to reconvert England to Catholicism and stamp out heresy. Martyn Rady, in his irresistible history of the Habsburgs, accepts the calculation that during his four years as sort-of-king, Philip was at least complicit in the ritual murder of almost three hundred Protestants – one of the most intense episodes of ... ”
