City of Martyrs
Oxford’s Hidden History
Jonathan Luxmoore
Tap "Oxford martyrs" into a search engine and the chances are just three names will appear: those of the Protestant prelates who were burned at the stake outside Balliol College during the reign of Mary I - "Bloody Mary".
Yet Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, all Cambridge-educated, had no personal connections with Oxford. They were brought here in 1555 to be examined and put on trial.
By contrast, Oxford has educated and nurtured dozens of canonised and beatified Catholic martyrs, more than any other secular university in the world, whose names, long hidden behind official establishment narratives, remain largely unknown even today. They came from various halls and colleges, with St John's, Brasenose, Gloucester Hall (later Worcester College), Corpus Christi, Trinity and New College producing the largest numbers.
Their dramatic and tragic life stories - of flight and exile, capture and execution - are collected here for the first time, in a turbulent historical setting full of spies and informers, sinners and saints.
978 1 78182 208 1
312 pages
£25.00
