Ebook {Epub PDF} Gods Traitors: Terror Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

God’s Traitors’ by Jessie Childs tells the story of Catholic recusancy in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods through the prism of the Vaux family. Ever since the break from Rome during Henry VIII’s reign Catholics were faced with swearing a dual loyalty to their monarch and the Pope with many unable to swear the former/5.  · "God's Traitors is both a dramatic and thrilling story of fear, faith, courage, and deceit and an important exposé of the terror of life as a Catholic in Elizabethan England."— The New Statesman "Truly www.doorway.ru Childs tells an exciting story.[H]er research is really very thorough God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic www.doorway.ru Jessie’s second book, God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, was published by Bodley Head in the UK in March to widespread critical acclaim. It was Book of the Week in the Times and the Guardian, an Evening Standard bestseller, and a recommended summer read in the Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Mail on www.doorway.ru by: 2.

God's Traitors explores this agonising conflict of loyalty from the perspective of one Catholic family, the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. To follow the Vaux story -- from staunch loyalty to passive resistance to increasing activism -- is to see, in microcosm, the pressures and painful choices that confronted the Catholic community of Reformation. 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. God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, ,

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. "God's Traitors is both a dramatic and thrilling story of fear, faith, courage, and deceit and an important exposé of the terror of life as a Catholic in Elizabethan England."— The New Statesman "Truly www.doorway.ru Childs tells an exciting story.[H]er research is really very thorough God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic history. In this superb history, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. God’s Traitors is a tale of dawn raids and daring escapes, stately homes and torture chambers, ciphers, secrets and lies. From clandestine chapels and side-street inns to exile communities and the corridors of power, it exposes the tensions and insecurities masked by the cult of Gloriana.