Roman Catholic Church

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism both from HJ 's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while...

Here she writes also about the English Civil War as a way of writing about the First World War. She writes in a similarly veiled manner about her own religious struggles at a time when...

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 Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

MDF 's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at...

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

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...

The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that...

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 takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the...

Critic Elaine V. Beilin discerns the influence on AD 's text of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments, 1563. Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg is particularly explicit in its critique...

In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the Catholic Church

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...