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Item Details
| Title:
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GOD'S TRAITORS
TERROR AND FAITH IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND |
| By: |
Jessie Childs |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
147351164X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781473511644 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 March, 2014 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
The Catholics of Elizabethan England did not witness a golden age. Their Mass was banned, their priests were outlawed, their faith was criminalised. This title explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. |
| Synopsis: |
*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*A woman awakes in a prison cell.She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot. The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. Through the eyes of this remarkable family, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England - an age in which their faith was criminalised and almost two hundred Catholics were executed. From dawn raids to daring escapes, stately homes to torture chambers, God's Traitors exposes the tensions masked by the cult of Gloriana - and is a timely reminder of the terrible consequences when religion and politics collide. |
| Illustrations: |
16 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2015 (UK)
Short-listed for Longman-History Today Book Prize 2014 (UK)
Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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