Religious Ideology and Cultural Fantasy
Subtitle: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780268034795
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Europe; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; European - General; 16th century; 17th century; Anti-Catholicism; Catholic Church; Christian literature, English; England; History; History and criticism
First sentence: ENGLISH NATIONALISM RESTS ON A FOUNDATION OF ANTI-CATHOLICISM. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries English identity was defined as Protestant, so Roman Catholicism, especially in its post-Tridentine, Jesuit manifestations, was cast as the hated and dangerous antagonist, most fearfully embodied in a papacy that claimed the right to depose monarchs.