Still Fighting the Dead: Germain Gardiner’s Scathing Attack on Martyr John Frith

On this day in Tudor history, 1st August 1534, in the reign of Henry VIII, Catholic gentleman Germain Gardiner published a scathing posthumous attack on Protestant martyr John Frith.

Frith was dead though, he'd been burnt at the stake over a year before.

But who was Frith? And why did Gardiner care enough to write such a fiery rebuttal after his death?

And how did both men end up executed for their beliefs?

Read Gardiner’s full tract here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01469.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext