Roman Catholic Church

These jaunty poems contrast with a gothic-toned narrative about a party of boar-hunters who are joined by a mysterious White Knight who seems to be on a temporary pass out of Hell. SP speculates on...

The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

A similar document, Chiefest Reasons Why I Became a Catholick, cites nine reasons, beginning with Catholicism's antiquity and unity, and ending with [s]uch rare examples of virtue in both sexes such as I could...

She says here that it is learned men, not women, who are responsible for misreadings of the Bible. Women were the first to see the risen Christ, and are allowed to read for themselves now...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

SH 's letter begins by rebutting the charge of female inconstancy. It is, she writes, matter of great Humiliation to me to admit her theological mistake and to change her mind. One criticism she...

The letters are an intimate portrayal of the thirty-nine-year love affair between Warner and Ackland, from their first meeting until Ackland's death. Written when the two women were together and apart, the correspondence is a...

She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she...

The Catholic clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either...

Through religious allusion and diction, VM addresses the theme of sacred and profane love and explores the ethical dilemmas of a love triangle in a small village. Evan Davidstow, an altruistic lawyer, is caught between...

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and...

She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic