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Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Agnes Wenman | She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic
. |
| Author summary | Evelyn Waugh | EW
was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He... |
| Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican
, EW
renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism
in 1930. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 184 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Waugh | The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW
filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he... |
| Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW
converted to Catholicism
. He was received into the Church on 29 September that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| death | Evelyn Waugh | He had just taken part in a festive family lunch following a local celebration by his friend Father Caraman
of the Roman Catholic
Mass in Latin, not English: that is, according to the old rite... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | After EW
's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Waugh | 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... |
| Textual Features | Evelyn Waugh | The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church
, which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with... |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
| Cultural formation | Sarah Waters | SW
grew up as a Roman Catholic
in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Warren | |
| Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67. 261 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marina Warner | 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 |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Timeline
8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...
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8 December 1635
Queen Henrietta Maria
's personal Roman Catholic
chapel, designed by Inigo Jones
, opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
.
9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...
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9 November 1640
In a season during which John Pym
and the Long Parliament
created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...
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By 1643
Arcangela Tarabotti
(a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...
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30 March 1643
An altarpiece by Rubens
in Henrietta Maria
's Roman Catholic
chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...
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Before October 1646
Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw
(1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. SacredPoems, with other Delights of the Muses.
6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...
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6 June 1654
Queen Christina
abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...
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1670
Les Pensées de M. Pascal
sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...
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15 March 1672
Charles II
promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist
s or recusants
in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...
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March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...
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1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
Early 1678: Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders...
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Early 1678
Persecution of Scots Covenanters
and attenders at secret conventicles reached a new level with the despatch of Highland troops (mostly Roman Catholics
) to enforce the law in Ayrshire.
1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...
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1682
Bunyan
published an allegoryof salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
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