God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
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Author: Alice Hogge
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
We live in an age where religious fundamentalism has a profound effect on world politics. This is a story of fundamentalism on our own shores, a story which we have chosen to ignore but which has shaped, and continues to shape, the country we live in today. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. The aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms -- to return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later, in March 1606, with one of those men hiding for his life and the other awaiting trial for high treason, the fate of the Mission they had come to join depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner undergoing torture in the Tower of London. The hopes of England's Catholics lay in ruins, destroyed by the actions of a small group of renegade terrorists -- the Gunpowder Plotters. God's Secret Agents reveals a struggle for freedom of conscience and how Elizabeth's government spun it into treachery. It tells how a religion was persecuted in defence of the realm and explores the emergence o
Author: Alice Hogge
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
We live in an age where religious fundamentalism has a profound effect on world politics. This is a story of fundamentalism on our own shores, a story which we have chosen to ignore but which has shaped, and continues to shape, the country we live in today. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. The aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms -- to return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later, in March 1606, with one of those men hiding for his life and the other awaiting trial for high treason, the fate of the Mission they had come to join depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner undergoing torture in the Tower of London. The hopes of England's Catholics lay in ruins, destroyed by the actions of a small group of renegade terrorists -- the Gunpowder Plotters. God's Secret Agents reveals a struggle for freedom of conscience and how Elizabeth's government spun it into treachery. It tells how a religion was persecuted in defence of the realm and explores the emergence o
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Alice Hogge
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
We live in an age where religious fundamentalism has a profound effect on world politics. This is a story of fundamentalism on our own shores, a story which we have chosen to ignore but which has shaped, and continues to shape, the country we live in today. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. The aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms -- to return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later, in March 1606, with one of those men hiding for his life and the other awaiting trial for high treason, the fate of the Mission they had come to join depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner undergoing torture in the Tower of London. The hopes of England's Catholics lay in ruins, destroyed by the actions of a small group of renegade terrorists -- the Gunpowder Plotters. God's Secret Agents reveals a struggle for freedom of conscience and how Elizabeth's government spun it into treachery. It tells how a religion was persecuted in defence of the realm and explores the emergence o
Author: Alice Hogge
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
We live in an age where religious fundamentalism has a profound effect on world politics. This is a story of fundamentalism on our own shores, a story which we have chosen to ignore but which has shaped, and continues to shape, the country we live in today. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. The aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms -- to return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later, in March 1606, with one of those men hiding for his life and the other awaiting trial for high treason, the fate of the Mission they had come to join depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner undergoing torture in the Tower of London. The hopes of England's Catholics lay in ruins, destroyed by the actions of a small group of renegade terrorists -- the Gunpowder Plotters. God's Secret Agents reveals a struggle for freedom of conscience and how Elizabeth's government spun it into treachery. It tells how a religion was persecuted in defence of the realm and explores the emergence o
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot