Roman Catholic Church

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...

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...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

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...

The second part is devoted to France. MDF laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism : slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition . She identifies...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

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

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...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

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 his...

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

CS sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism , which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism , which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in...

Nor does the new Catholic middle class escape unscathed, as ML emphasizes the unnecessary squalor of their dwellings. One house that Hogan visits seems on first glance full of plenty and sophistication, but daylight reveals...

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