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

Childs, Jessie

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ISBN 10: 1847921566 ISBN 13: 9781847921567

Casa editrice: Bodley Head, 2014

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*

The Catholics of Elizabethan England did not witness a golden age. Their Mass was banned, their priests were outlawed, their faith was criminalised. In an age of assassination and Armada, those Catholics who clung to their faith were increasingly seen as the enemy within. 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. Above all, it is a timely story of courage and frailty, repression and reaction and 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: Bodley Head
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847921566
• ISBN 13: 9781847921567
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 464