God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England - Brossura

Childs, Jessie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784700053 ISBN 13: 9781784700058

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2015

Riassunto

*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize*
*Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction*
*A Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year*
*A Times Book of the Year*
*An Observer Book of the Year*

A woman awakes in a prison cell.

She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot.

The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.

Through the eyes of this remarkable family, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England - an age in which their faith was criminalised and almost two hundred Catholics were executed.

From dawn raids to daring escapes, stately homes to torture chambers, God's Traitors exposes the tensions masked by the cult of Gloriana - and is a timely reminder of the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide.

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Recensione:

"A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research" (Antonia Fraser)

"Absorbing, exciting and relevant" (Ben MacIntyre The Times Book of the Week)

"Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters" (Simon Callow Guardian)

"Thrilling" (New Statesman)

"God’s Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism and holiness in Tudor England... It is little short of a triumph" (Ian Thomson Financial Times)

"Beautifully written... Hollywood could not have made it up" (Professor JJ Scarisbrick)

"Brilliant " (Wall Street Journal)

"Truly excellent... God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic history. It raises issues of some real historical importance" (Michael Questier Spectator)

"This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age" (Dan Jones Sunday Times)

"Excellent... An engaging history of English papists, filled with memorable episodes" (The Economist)

Descrizione del libro:

A true story of plots, priest-holes and persecution and one family's battle to save Catholicism in Reformation England.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784700053
• ISBN 13: 9781784700058
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480