Anti Catholicism In Victorian England

Author : Denis G. Paz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0804719845

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Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England by Denis G. Paz Pdf

Anti-Catholic sentiment was a major social, cultural, and political force in Victorian England, capable of arousing remarkable popular passion. Hitherto, however, anti-Catholic feeling has been treated largely from the perspective of parliamentary politics or with reference to the propaganda of various London-based anti-Catholic religious organizations. This book sets out to Victorian anti-Catholicism in a much fuller and more inclusive context, accounting for its persistence over time, disguishing it from anti-Irish sentiment, and explaining its social, economic, political, and religious bases locally as well as nationally. The author is principally concerned with determining what led ordinary people to violent acts against Roman Catholic targets, violent acts against Roman Catholic petitions, joining anti-Catholic organizations, and reading anti-Catholic literature. All too often, English history, and even British history, turns out to be the history of what was happening in the West End. One of the special distinctions of this book is that it shows the interplay between national issues and their local conditions. The book covers the period ca.

Author : E. Norman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000639308

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Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England by E. Norman Pdf

First published in 1968, this book provides an introduction to the subject of anti-Catholicism in Victorian England and a selection of illustrative documents. It demonstrates that Victorian ‘No Popery’ agitations were in fact almost the last expressions of a long English tradition of anti-Catholic intolerance and, in reality, the legal and socia

Author : Frank H. Wallis
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : UOM:39015029559625

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Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britain by Frank H. Wallis Pdf

Based on parliamentary debates, select committee reports, petitions, secular periodicals, religious journals and tracts from ultra-Protestant organizations, this volume recognizes the value of psychological insights on religious bias and stereotyping.

Author : Colin Haydon
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : 0719028590

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Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-century England, C. 1714-80 by Colin Haydon Pdf

This study of anti-Catholicism in 18th-century England demonstrates that the "no Popery" sentiment was a potent force under the first three Georges and was, on occasions, manifested in the hostility of significant sections of the middle and upper ranks of society, as well as the populace at large.

Author : Edward R. Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033683801

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Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England by Edward R. Norman Pdf

Author : Rene Kollar
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227903117

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A Foreign and Wicked Institution by Rene Kollar Pdf

This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.

Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521828109

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The Old Enemies by Michael Wheeler Pdf

This wide-ranging, well-illustrated study explores how the ancient divisions between Catholics and Protestants continued in the Victorian age.

Author : Walter L. Arnstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015008209242

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Protestant Versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England by Walter L. Arnstein Pdf

This book explores the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the period from 1850 to 1874, focusing on Parliament Member Charles Newdigate Newdegate and his crusade against male and female Catholic religious orders.

Author : Dominic Janes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190452216

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Victorian Reformation by Dominic Janes Pdf

In early Victorian England there was intense interest in understanding the early Church as an inspiration for contemporary sanctity. This was manifested in a surge in archaeological inquiry and also in the construction of new churches using medieval models. Some Anglicans began to use a much more complicated form of ritual involving vestments, candles, and incense. This "Anglo-Catholic" movement was vehemently opposed by evangelicals and dissenters, who saw this as the vanguard of full-blown "popery." The disputed buildings, objects, and art works were regarded by one side as idolatrous and by the other as sacred and beautiful expressions of devotion. Dominic Janes seeks to understand the fierce passions that were unleashed by the contended practices and artifacts - passions that found expression in litigation, in rowdy demonstrations, and even in physical violence. During this period, Janes observes, the wider culture was preoccupied with the idea of pollution caused by improper sexuality. The Anglo-Catholics had formulated a spiritual ethic that linked goodness and beauty. Their opponents saw this visual worship as dangerously sensual. In effect, this sacred material culture was seen as a sexual fetish. The origins of this understanding, Janes shows, lay in radical circles, often in the context of the production of anti-Catholic pornography which titillated with the contemplation of images of licentious priests, nuns, and monks.

Author : Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030428822

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Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000 by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille,Geraldine Vaughan Pdf

This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, but what the book as a whole suggests is that there can be no teleological narration of anti-Catholicism – its manifestations were episodic, more or less rooted in common worldviews, and its history does not end today.

Author : Susan M. Griffin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521833930

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Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Susan M. Griffin Pdf

Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.

Author : Jonathan Bush
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443865029

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“Papists” and Prejudice by Jonathan Bush Pdf

The North East of England was regarded as a major Catholic stronghold in the nineteenth century. This was, in no small part, due to the large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants who contributed greatly towards the region’s unprecedented expansion, with the Catholic population in Newcastle and County Durham increasing from 23,250 in 1847 to 86,397 in 1874. How far were the Catholic Church and its incoming Irish adherents accepted by the Protestant population of North East England? This book will provide a timely reassessment of the hitherto accepted view that local cultural factors reduced the anti-Catholic and anti-Irish feeling in the North East that seemed deep-seated in other areas. This book demonstrates the way in which north-eastern anti-Catholicism was far from homogenous and monolithic, cutting across the political and religious divide. It highlights the proactive role of the Catholic communities in sectarian controversy, whose assertiveness contributed, ironically, towards the development of local anti-Catholic feeling. Finally, it will show how large-scale Irish immigration ensured that the North East experienced regular outbreaks of sectarian violence, whether English-Irish or intra-Irish, which were influenced by local conditions and circumstances. This book is the first comprehensive regional study of Victorian anti-Catholicism. By examining areas of enquiry not previously considered in broader studies, its findings have wider implications for understanding the prevalent and all-encompassing nature of anti-Catholicism generally. It also contributes towards the wider debate on North East regional identity by questioning the continued credibility of a paradigm which views the region as exceptionally tolerant.

Author : Maria LaMonaca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131797487

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Masked Atheism by Maria LaMonaca Pdf

Why did the Victorians hate and fear Roman Catholics so much? This question has long preoccupied literary and cultural scholars alike. Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home by Maria LaMonaca begins with the assumption that anti-Catholicism reveals far more about the Victorians than simple theological disagreements or religious prejudice. An analysis of anti-Catholicism exposes a host of anxieties, contradictions, and controversies dividing Great Britain, the world's most powerful nation by the mid-nineteenth century. Noting that Catholicism was frequently caricatured by the Victorians as "masked atheism"--that is, heathenism and paganism masquerading as legitimate Christianity--LaMonaca's study suggests that much anti-Catholic rhetoric in Victorian England was fueled by fears of encroaching secularism and anxieties about the disappearance of God in the modern world. For both male and female writers, Catholicism became a synonym for larger, "ungodly" forces threatening traditional ways of life: industrialization, rising standards of living, and religious skepticism. LaMonaca situates texts by Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Michael Field, and others against a rich background of discourses about the growing visibility of Anglo and Roman Catholicism in Victorian England. In so doing, she demonstrates the influence of both pro- and anti-Catholic sentiment on constructs of Victorian domesticity, and explores how writers appropriated elements of Catholicism to voice anxieties about the growing secularization of the domestic sphere: a bold challenge to sentimental notions of the home as a "sacred" space. Masked Atheism will contribute a fresh perspective to an ongoing conversation about the significance of Catholicism in Victorian literature and culture.

Author : Geraldine Vaughan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031112287

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Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s by Geraldine Vaughan Pdf

Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion. This book explores anti-Catholicism in Britain and its Dominions, and forms part of a notable revival over the last decade in the critical historical analysis of anti-Catholicism. It employs transnational and comparative historical approaches throughout, thanks to the exploration of relevant original sources both in the United Kingdom and in Australia and Canada, several of them untapped by other scholars. It applies a 'four nations' approach to British history, thus avoiding an Anglocentric viewpoint.

Author : P. L. Wickins
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781906791957

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Victoria Protestantism and Bloody Mary by P. L. Wickins Pdf

This is an important and interesting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." So it was among religiously-minded people in 19th century England. By the beginning of the Victorian era, after the somnolence of the 18th century, religious enthusiasm among both clergy and laity in the established Church revived. This brought about such acrimonious differences it was a wonder they could be accommodated in the same Church. Provoked by a group of Oxford scholars who sought to show that the Church of England was neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant but a middle way between the two, Protestant militants were aroused to demonstrate against and even disrupt church services of which they disapproved. To remind English men and women of the glories of the Reformation they erected memorials in many towns to celebrate the heroic reputation of the martyrs who suffered in the reign of 'Bloody Mary.' Memorials required names and to find out who the victims were and where they met their end the memorial committees turned to the pages of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs, better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs. A most effective work of propaganda in the days of religious warfare, it was reprinted in new editions. Now the target was no longer the Church of Rome, but the Anglo-Catholics or the alleged 'Romanisers.' A perplexing problem for the historian is what the Protestant martyrs actually believed. It is clearly naive to suppose that they died for 19th century parliamentary democracy and liberties. Foxe's criterion of Protestant martyrdom was hatred of Rome and in his anxiety to drum up the numbers he was reticent about or ignorant of the widely varying beliefs of his martyrs. The assumption of the 19th century Protestants was that the English people rose as one to reject popery, but it is impossible to accurately assess the support for state-imposed religious change. Surviving evidence, as the preamble to wills, seems to suggest that people for the most part simply acquiesced in what the government of the day decided was the 'true' religion.