Catholics and Treason: Martyrology, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Reformation

by Michael Questier

Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history. Prosecutions of Catholics under the existing law and via new legislation produced a great deal of documentation which tells us much about contemporary politics that we could not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192847023
• ISBN13: 9780192847027
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"