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Book Campion and Parsons

Download or read book Campion and Parsons written by Ernest Edwin Reynolds and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow of the Past

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  • Author : Judith Cutler
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby
  • Release : 2012-01-12
  • ISBN : 0749011726
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Shadow of the Past written by Judith Cutler and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobias Campion, rector of Moreton St Jude, is delighted to welcome the widowed Lady Chase as his parishioner. Charming and generous-spirited, she nonetheless harbours a secret sorrow: her son is missing, presumed dead, and her loathsome nephew Sir Marcus is desperate to declare himself heir to the estate. Much as Tobias dislikes Marcus, his feelings for another member of the family are rather different - the lovely Lady Dorothea enchants him from the very start, not least because of her kindly ways with the enigmatic governess Anne. Then Anne disappears on the very day that the body of a stranger is found in a local river. Surely she has not had a hand in his death? When it transpires that the man might have been bringing news of Lady Chase's missing son, Tobias is forced to quit the village to uncover the truth. Unfortunately, many of those he encounters in his travels are equally determined to keep the past well hidden...

Book Edmund Campion

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  • Author : Richard Simpson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book Edmund Campion written by Richard Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book God s Traitors

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  • Author : Jessie Childs
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 0199392374
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book God s Traitors written by Jessie Childs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Catholics, the Elizabethan "Golden Age" was an alien concept. Following the criminalization of their religion by Elizabeth I, nearly two hundred Catholics were executed, and many more wasted away in prison during her reign. Torture was used more than at any other time in England's history. While some bowed to the pressure of the government and new church, publicly conforming to acts of Protestant worship, others did not - and quickly found themselves living in a state of siege. Under constant surveillance, haunted by the threat of imprisonment - or worse - the ordinary lives of these so-called recusants became marked by evasion, subterfuge, and constant fear. In God's Traitors, Jessie Childs tells the fascinating story of one Catholic family, the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall, from the foundation of the Church of England in the 1530s to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and their struggle to keep the faith in Protestant England. Few Elizabethans would have disputed that obedience was a Christian duty, but following the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth by Pope Pius V in 1570 and the growing anti-Catholic sentiment in the decades that followed, it became increasingly difficult for English Catholics to maintain a dual allegiance to their God and their Queen. Childs follows the Vauxes into the heart of the underground Catholic movement, exploring the conflicts of loyalty they faced and the means by which they exerted defiance. Tracing the family's path from staunch loyalty to the Crown, to passive resistance and on to increasing activism, Childs illustrates the pressures and painful choices that confronted the persecuted Catholic community. Though recusants like the Vauxes comprised only a tiny fraction of the Catholic minority in England, they aroused fears in the heart of the commonwealth. Childs shows how "anti-popery" became an ideology and a cultural force, shaping not only the life and policy of Elizabeth I, but also those of her successors. From clandestine chapels and side-street inns to exile communities and the corridors of power, God's Traitors exposes the tensions and insecurities that plagued Catholics living under the rule of Elizabeth I. Above all, it is a timely story of courage and concession, repression and reaction, and the often terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.

Book Spirit  Style  Story

Download or read book Spirit Style Story written by Thomas M. Lucas and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on the development of the Jesuits and the Ignatian spirit covers such topics as the Jesuit education, the order's influence on the world throughout its 450-year history, and the variations of its spiritual expressions. Original.

Book The Keeper of Secrets

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  • Author : Judith Cutler
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby
  • Release : 2011-11-11
  • ISBN : 0749011157
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Keeper of Secrets written by Judith Cutler and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England 1810. Young Parson Tobias Campion is excited and nervous to be starting at the small parish of Moreton Priory. But his first night in the village brings excitement of the wrong kind when he has to intervene in the attempted rape of housemaid Lizzie Woodman. Even in the normal course of events life in the village is far from quiet, as soon Tobias has to deal with both violent and suspicious deaths which put his character and ministry to the test. But matters come to a head when Lizzie disappears from her employers. What has become of the girl and who is responsible? As Tobias searches for answers they find themselves delving into the dark secrets that haunt Lizzie's past.

Book The Story of Secret Service

Download or read book The Story of Secret Service written by Richard Wilmer Rowan and published by Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated. This book was released on 1937 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Society of Jesus in Ireland  Scotland  and England 1541 1588

Download or read book The Society of Jesus in Ireland Scotland and England 1541 1588 written by Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive study of the work of the Society of Jesus in the British Isles during the sixteenth century. Beginning with an account of brief papal missions to Ireland (1541) and Scotland (1562), it goes on to cover the foundation of a permanent mission to England (1580) and the frustration of Catholic hopes with the failure of the Spanish Armada (1588). Throughout the book, the activities of the Jesuits - preaching, propaganda, prayer and politics - are set within a wider European context, and within the framework of the Society's Constitutions. In particular, the sections on religious life and involvement in diplomacy show how flexibly the Jesuits adapted their "way of proceeding" to the religious and political circumstances of the British Isles, and to the demands of the Counter-Reformation.

Book The Edinburgh Review

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre and Religion

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  • Author : Richard Dutton
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780719063633
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Theatre and Religion written by Richard Dutton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book The Living Age

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 840 pages

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England

Download or read book Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England written by Professor Victor Houliston and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546–1610) was arguably the leading figure fighting for the re-establishment of Catholicism in England. Whilst his colleague Edmund Campion may now be better known it was Persons's tireless efforts that kept the Jesuit mission alive during the difficult days of Elizabeth's reign. In this new study, Person's life and phenomenal literary output are analysed and put into the broader context of recent Catholic scholarship. The book bridges the gap between historical studies, on the one hand, and literary studies on the other, by concentrating on Persons's contribution as a writer to the polemical culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. As well as discussing his wider achievements as leader of the English Jesuits – founding three seminaries for English priests, corresponding regularly with Catholic activists in England, writing over thirty books, holding the post of rector of the English College in Rome, and being a trusted consultant to the papacy on English affairs – this study looks in detail at what is arguably his greatest legacy, The First Booke of the Christian Exercise (more commonly known as the Book of Resolution). That book, first published in 1582, was to prove the cornerstone of Persons's missionary effort, and a popular work of Catholic devotion, running to several editions over the coming years. Although Persons was ultimately unsuccessful in his ambition to return England to the Catholic fold, the story of his life and works reveals much about the ecclesiastical struggle that gripped early modern Europe. By providing a thorough and up-to-date reassessment of Persons this study not only makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the polemical context of post-Reformation Catholicism, but also of the Jesuit notion of the 'apostolate of writing'. This book is published in conjunction with the Jesuit Historical Institute series 'Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu'.

Book The history of Protestantism

Download or read book The history of Protestantism written by James Aitken Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eye of the Crown

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  • Author : Kristin M.S. Bezio
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-08-19
  • ISBN : 1000640280
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Eye of the Crown written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government’s attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile reach both east and west, spies and agents became essential figures of empire, but their presence also fundamentally altered the old hierarchies of class and power. The job of the spy or agent required fluidity of role, the adoption of disguise and alias, and education, all elements that contributed to the ideological breakdown of social and class barriers. The volume argues that the inclusion of the lower classes (commoners, merchants, messengers, and couriers) in the machinery of government ultimately contributed to the creation of governmental proto-bureaucracy. The importance and significance of these spies is demonstrated through the use of statistical social network analysis, analyzing social network maps and statistics to discuss the prominence of particular figures within the network and the overall shape and dynamics of the evolving Elizabethan secret service. The Eye of the Crown is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in government, espionage, social hierarchy, and imperial power in Elizabethan England.

Book Catholic Loyalism in Elizabethan England

Download or read book Catholic Loyalism in Elizabethan England written by Arnold Pritchard and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the varying attitudes toward the English crown and the order of English society were central to the differences between the loyalists and the militants, disagreements involved many questions other than political ones, including the role of the Jesuits in the English mission and the nature of church government. This first work to concentrate on the Elizabethan Catholic church relates party thought to the quarrels with the Catholic community during Elizabeth's reign. Originally published in 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Book Catholics and the  Protestant Nation

Download or read book Catholics and the Protestant Nation written by Ethan H. Shagan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography