PARTING WITH EDWARD VI: MOURNING CEREMONIES IN CONTEXT OF RELIGIOUS CHANGES IN ENGLAND

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This article examines the parting with the Protestant sovereign Edward VI under the circumstances which lead to general political instability and the Catholic queen Mary I’s ascent to the throne. The author analyzes a number of issues, i.e., Edward VI composing his will, funeral ceremonies and this monarch’s burial. Edward VI’s mourning consisting of both Protestant and Catholic components turns out to be the principal witness of the scope of the political and religious crisis England experienced in the middle of the 16th century. Parallel to the public Protestant service at the Westminster Abbey, a Catholic Mass is being held in the Tower, and it is at the latter that the successor of the deceased Edward VI on the English throne, Mary I, and foreign ambassadors are present. The research is based on textual sources (some of them unpublished) as well as pictorial ones.

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E. E Karavaeva

The Moscow Kremlin Museums

Email: karavaeva.kremlin@gmail.com
Moscow, Russian Federation

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