Old enemies : catholic and protestant in nineteenth-century english culture
Divisions between Catholics and Protestants have been a feature of English history since the Reformation. This text asks why these ancient divisions were so deep, and how and why they continued into the nineteenth century. This wide-ranging, well-illustrated study sheds light on nineteenth-century history, literature and religion.
Print Book, English, 2011
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Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2011
Church history
xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521828109, 9780521292818, 0521828104, 0521292816
709837808
Introduction : 'Papal aggression'
On the origin of churches
England drawn and quartered
Jacobite claims and London mobs
The fortress of Christianity
Out of the war of tongues
Authority on the rocks
Maiden and mother
Liberalism and dogma
Painful epiphanies