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The old enemies : Catholic and Protestant in nineteenth-century English culture

Divisions between Catholics and Protestants have been a feature of English history since the Reformation. Michael Wheeler asks why these ancient divisions were so deep, why they continued into the 19th century and how the religious debates were reinterpreted by novelists, preachers and historians
Print Book, English, 2006
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
Church history
xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521828109, 0521828104
60796196
Introduction : 'Papal aggression'
On the origin of churches
England drawn and quartered
Jacobite claims and London mobs
The fortress of Christianity
Out of the war of tongues
Authority on the rocks
Maiden and mother
Liberalism and dogma
Painful epiphanies